As we had shortened sail, the privateer manifested no intention of throwing a shot to make us heave-to.
Sail was shortenedas we came in, and the ship made a flying moor; after which we lay as securely, at if actually in some basin wrought by art.
Make a paste of flour shortened with cold gravy, or drippings saved from roast venison.
Boiled paste is always best when shortened with minced suet.
Dunham, after a day of prostration, had risen, and had perhapsshortened his anguish by his resolution.
Captain Jenness was walking fretfully to and fro; he glanced now at the yellow glare, and now cast his eye aloft at the shortened sail.
But Theodore was nearly always called Ted or Teddy, Janet's name was shortened to Jan and William answered to the call of Trouble as often as to any other.
Late that night they arrived off the mouth of the Rio Grande, where they shortened sail, "and lay off and on.
The wind continued fair when they stood to the westward, after sighting the Canaries, so that neither ship so much as shortened sail "untill 25 dayes after," when the men in the painted tops descried the high land of Guadaloupe.
We now shortened sail, and kept upon our tacks for the night.
Presently they shortened sail and formed line of battle.
The sea now became so rough that all the ships shortened sail.
At this both the French and the British ships shortened sail.
Her crew grew anxious and moody as they stubbornly thrashed her to windward under shortened sail, for every day at sea increased the strain on their finances and the open-water season was short.
Bethune nodded agreement as a puff of cold air struck his face, and while they shortened in the cable small white ripples splashed against the bows.
The two latter diphthongs stood alone in never beingshortened even when they were unstressed and followed by two consonants.
Doubtless Milton shortened it in 'Areopagitica', just as English usage made him lengthen the initial vowel of the word.
Of course all scholars shortened the first vowel of the word, and doubtless Shakespeare shortened also the third.
At a later time he became a purist in quantities, and then he shortened the o and took the voice out of the s and spoke of her and to her as Rossa.
I have watched one to the left of us steadily for more than half an hour and I am sure that he has not shortened the distance between himself and us.
Then he shortened sail and moved west again till Barrow was "hull down" behind him.
With regard to Caleb, Renan prefers a different interpretation; it is supposed to be a shortened form of Kalbel, and "Dog of El" is a strong expression to denote the devotion of a tribe to its patron god.
The name of David is a shortenedform of Davdo, Dodo, "the favourite of Him," i.
He smashed his knuckles and badly bruised his hands, but he succeeded, and knew that he had shortened the chain by two-thirds now.
They could scarcely hear each other, though the schooner was lurching over it more easily now with shortened canvas, and Wyllard only made Dampier understand that he wished to speak to him by thrusting him towards the deck-house door.
Then the bows would go down again, and all that was visible was the fore-shortened slope of deck and the breast of the big undulation that hove itself up ahead.
They may also be shortened by cutting away the shoulder formed by the halving.
We have seen that the weight is sustained by two cords; if, therefore, it has been raised two feet, each cord must be shortened two feet.
A quick order, the breaking out of a string of signal flags, the jerky, serpentine inrush of the already shortened anchor-chain, and our ship had caught the impulse of her accelerating screws and began slowly gathering headway.
The rival play of Stukeley was shortened in the same way; a whole act was expunged before its publication in 1605.
December 1606, is abridged and slightly altered for Court representation and carelessly printed; the Folio is, on the other hand, somewhat shortened for the public stage.
Now Q{1} shows evident signs of being printed from a shortened copy P; Q{2} is manifestly a revision of a full copy M.
If the cross head be thrown in at the one end, and out equally at the other, the fault is in the motion side rod, which must be lengthened or shortened to remedy the defect.
The patient will either hurry to a physician at some place on his wedding tour, or his wedding tour will be shortened and he will return to consult a friend.
As with regard to diabetes, tuberculosis and many another affection, every year after fifty adds to the prospect that the patient's ordinary span of life will not be much shortened and that the symptoms will not be severe.
Even life may be shortened by the confinement or limitation of movement consequent upon bad feet.
Sylvia's serene arc of white forehead was shortened by a distressed frown, her mild mouth dropped sourly at the corners, and the lips were compressed.
Some types of the rock-drill are controllable as to the length of their stroke, so that it can be shortened while the "entry" of the hole is being made and gradually increased as the hole deepens.
From the centre of its bottom hangs a series of tubes fitting one into the other, so that the whole series can be shortenedor lengthened at will.
As in the last family, the foot is abruptly shortened in front.
She died before I had passed the age of childhood, as the change from the mild climate of her land to the heat of my father's shortened her days.
He was constant in his devotion to duty, and no doubt shortened his life by his public labors.
He embittered and shortened a life originally devoted to noble aims, and in its darkest shadows filled with generous impulses.
My time has suddenly been shortened to hours--perhaps to minutes.
The dinner was strictly a family meal, with the great mahogany table shortened to make it convenient for four.
This process is more laborious than might be imagined, but it may be shortened by heating the platinum foil supporting the water (Fig.
Bawcock can easily be connected with Baldwin, while Meacock, Maycock, belong to the personal name May or Mee, shortened from the Old Fr.
We also find the shortened Ballister and Balestier, from which we have Bannister (Chapter III).
Both Dionisius and Dionisia were once common, and have survived as Dennis, Dennett, Denny, and from theshortened Dye we get Dyson.
Similarly French took from German a number of surnames formed from shortened names in -o, with an accusative in -on, e.
The suffix was added to theshortened form of font-names, e.
Tebbitt is a diminutive of Theobald, a favourite medieval name which had the shortened forms Teb, Tib, Tub, whence a number of derivatives.
But it is possible that Joy itself is not the abstract noun, but a shortened form of Julian.
But Row was also the shortened form of Rowland, or Roland.
Even Ebbs and Epps are more likely to be shortened forms of Isabella, usually reduced to Ib, or Ibbot (Chapter X), or of the once popular Euphemia.
Ball is sometimes the shortenedform of the once favourite Baldwin.
As a local suffix -head appears to mean top-end and is generally shortened to -ett, e.
Emma, but Empson may be a shortened Emerson from Emery (Chapter VIII).
