The paintings, however, cannot fail to attract the attention, although the time allowed to look at them is little short of aggravation.
At any rate, he, according to Parliamentary accounts, has received, of public money, little short of a million of guineas.
The expense of this can be little short of fifteen millions a year, all to be paid by the country-people who consume the goods, and a large part of it to be drawn up to the Wen.
The period, little short of a century, which elapsed between the death of William III.
Union proved that the influence of the Loftuses and the Hills fell little short of them.
The sense of direction and location of these primitive Pellucidarians is little short of uncanny, as I have had occasion to remark in the past.
To go forward over a dangerous glacier under such conditions was little short of madness; but I could not have stopped going had I known positively that death lay two paces before my nose.
BUT-- The incident of the finding of that buried telegraph instrument upon the lonely Sahara is little short of uncanny, in view of your story of the adventures of David Innes.
You'll have a nice property some of these days, but you're just a little short of cash at present.
Cox swore that they had thrice changed their fox, and was beginning to be a little short in his temper; the whips' horses were becoming jaded, and the master had once or twice answered very crossly when questioned.
I was a little short-sighted, and had to get pretty near before I could be certain; but she knew me, and waited my approach.
I shouted for Styles, but he was gone home with the mare, and I had to wait, in little short of agony, until he returned.
My uncle would have regarded it as little short of an insult for any one to drive wheels over the smooth lawny surface in which our house dwelt like a solitary island in the sea.
The brilliant decorations of my home shall be admired by all; I will move amidst a throng of youth, beauty, and nobility, as the presiding genius of a place which shall be little short of a fairy palace of romance and beauty.
If you would be regarded among men as little short of a divinity, you have but to throw gold-dust in their eyes, and through that glittering medium they will see you are a very god.
Even this mixture is used sparingly: the fire being scarcely larger than might be held in the two hands, while with us little short of two hundredweight suffices: which is unquestionably a great and unnecessary waste.
I was anxious to go to Chicago, but was a "little short" financially, and asked Mr. Smith to give me a job on the farm.
I explained to Charlie that I was rather low financially, when he informed me that he was a little short himself, but that I could rest assured that so long as he had any money he would divide.
I was very anxious to get married at once, but being a little short financially, concluded to postpone it a few days at least.
Company spirit was high, and it would be little short of a calamity to have Co.
These orders announcing rewards and punishments were supposed to have a salutary effect in stimulating the men to deeds of glory, and as a warning to those who were a little short of "sand.
The one alternative seemed impossible; the other, as I had evidence enough, little short of impossible.
Twas a little short of eleven when she returned to the pavilion.
The postmasters-general urged indeed that Parliament should be asked to avert what they regarded as little short of a catastrophe; but the recommendation was not adopted, and the decision of the Court was left to take effect.
And should the breach prove irreparable and a decision have to be given against the reformer who had done so much for his country, and from whom yet more was expected, it would be little short of a disaster.
The present height above the soil is a little short of twenty-five feet.
The bas-relief is three feet two inches in length, and just a little short of two feet in height.
I will tell you everything, though it's little shortof a perjury, only premising this much, that I know nothing from Walpole himself.
Long enough to hear you make a very pitiful lamentation over a condition that I, in my ignorance, used to believe was only a little short of Paradise.
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