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It appears as if, in consequence of changed diet or habits, the caecum had become much shortened in various animals, the vermiform appendage being left as a rudiment of the shortened part. [1]

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He continued presently with shortened breath: "I have evidence--I have evidence to get you back a good share of the estate, which my father will never miss. [9]
A sloop yacht, with a ridiculously shortened sail, was coming in from the Narrows, scudding before the wind like a frightened bird. [9]
So we shortened up one of the calico gowns, and I turned up my trouser-legs to my knees and got into it. [5]
In my own time a cut-off was made at American Bend, which shortened the river ten miles or more. [5]
Please observe:-- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. [5]
She was allowed the same amount of time that is granted to other applicants, and this was shortened in her case by the fact that the question papers had to be read to her. [5]
In spite of the civilization which controlled him, he wore Indian moccasins and deerskin breeches, though his coat was rather like a shortened workman's blouse. [11]
Do you know that you have caused a turmoil amongst both ecclesiastical and secular authorities, and that many a precious hour has been shortened for me on your account? [10]
Simply the responsibility that so cruelly shortened the Emperor's youth, and which at least grazes you. [10]
The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere. [5]
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran. [9]
The legislature has shortened your hours,--but why? [9]
Will he have shortened down to four feet and a little more, like the Esquimaux, or will he have been bred up to seven feet by the use of new chemical diets, ozonized and otherwise improved atmospheres, and animal fertilizers? [6]
The distance got shortened a little, now. [5]
She soon shortened sail, and went so leisurely that presently our light barge drew alongside, and I perceived Mr. Zachariah Hood, a merchant of the town, returning from London, hanging over her rail. [9]
These shortened the river, in the aggregate, sixty-seven miles. [5]
These shortened the river, in the aggregate, seventy-seven miles. [5]
This shortened the river twenty-eight miles. [5]
In 1722 the river darted through that neck, deserted its old bed, and thus shortened itself thirty-five miles. [5]
They visited the parish-schools duly; and often were Charlotte's rare and brief holidays of a visit from home shortened by her sense of the necessity of being in her place at the Sunday-school. [14]
I suppose a man who lived within hearing of a murmuring brook would find his life shortened if a sawmill were set up within earshot of his dwelling. [6]
Up to as late as 1847 Mr. Webster's Dictionary had the impudence to still pronounce 'basket' bahsket, when he knew that outside of his little New England all America shortened the 'a' and paid no attention to his English broadening of it. [5]
Mindful of the kernel of my story, I have shortened the chapter to tell you out of the proper place. [9]
If he did, it seriously shortened his law-study hours and his recreation-time in the courts. [5]
More than once it has shortened itself thirty miles at a single jump! [5]
It was cold in the street, and as Kuni had come out without any wrap, Frau Schurstab, in her friendly consideration, shortened the, conference. [10]
As it increased in strength the lulls shortened in length till there was a strong and steady blow all the time, and violent puffs at intervals, and sudden whirling currents. [13]
Garcilasso had shortened his sword, and, as his adversary raised his arm to strike, had pierced him to the heart. [4]
Uarda clung to her protector with shortened breath, and trembling like a hunted antelope. [10]
The count had furnished Ulrich with a spirited young horse, that shortened the road for him by its tricks and capers. [10]
A tree was cut down in the woods some distance from the shore, shortened, and brought down, ready for its duty of battering-ram. [11]
The Frenchman was as ready as ourselves for a brush, and tried to get the weather of us, but, failing, she shortened sail and gallantly waited for us. [11]
Huck closed up and shortened his distance, now, for they would never be able to see him. [5]
In the beginning, Aleck had given the coal speculation a twelvemonth in which to materialize, and had been loath to grant that this term might possibly be shortened by nine months. [5]
He is known about the ship as the "Interrogation Point," and this by constant use has become shortened to "Interrogation. [5]
Captain Stanwix being a prudent man, shortened sail, knowing the harbour of Funchal to be but a shallow bight in the rock, and worse than the open sea in a southeaster. [9]
Mine was not a full-grown bicycle, but only a colt--a fifty-inch, with the pedals shortened up to forty-eight--and skittish, like any other colt. [5]

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