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- Why should not variations occur during an early period of development, having no relation to reversion; yet such variations might be preserved and accumulated, if in any way serviceable, for instance, in shortening and simplifying the course of development? [1]
- If he comes towards the upper Potomac, follow on his flank, and on the inside track, shortening your lines while he lengthens his. [7]
- This shortening of that part of the limb which is nearest to the body, appears to be, as suggested to me by Mr. Forbes, a case of compensation in relation with the greatly increased length of the trunk. [1]
- To do the same thing a hundred and seventy- six years ago, one had to go a hundred and fifty-eight miles!-- shortening of eighty-eight miles in that trifling distance. [5]
- The Mississippi is remarkable in still another way--its disposition to make prodigious jumps by cutting through narrow necks of land, and thus straightening and shortening itself. [5]
- The unforeseen shortening of my visit must account for many disappointments to myself, and some, it may be, to others. [6]
- If the keeper of Heaven's gate is pleased with the generous action which the lost soul performed while on earth, he has the power of shortening the time of punishment, or can even pardon it altogether, and bid it enter into Paradise. [10]
- Whatever the doctor believed, he believed with all his heart, and would fight for it whenever he got the chance; and if the intervals between chances grew to be irksomely wide, he would invent ways of shortening them himself. [5]
- The current flowing around the bend traveled formerly only five miles an hour; now it is tremendously increased by the shortening of the distance. [5]
- They give me an opportunity of introducing one of the Mississippi's oddest peculiarities,--that of shortening its length from time to time. [5]
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