In fact they think that every living person without exception is the reincarnation of a dead person who lived on earth a longer orshorter time ago.
Like most savages, the Fijians believed that man is animated by a soul which quits his body temporarily in sleep and permanently at death, to survive for a longer or a shorter time in a disembodied state thereafter.
This is the result of the injury, but remains a longer orshorter time latent.
In a longer or shorter time he may die of a pneumonia, cystitis, or bedsores, which are the known and regular consequences of the injury or injured condition.
After a longer or shorter time, however, and apparently after a very few hours, in India, all this is changed.
The various injuries may cause disability for a longer or shorter time, or even permanently, and more or less deformity may also remain.
They are then rinsed, fulled for a longer or shorter time according to their nature, and fermented in a proper steep, after having been washed in hot water.
When ivory is kept immersed for a longer or shorter time in a dilute solution of sulphate of indigo (partly saturated with potash), it assumes a blue tint of greater or less intensity.
This system is called, the quick vinegar work, because it will complete the process in the course of 2 or 3 days, or even in a shorter time.
It has a certain quality; it has more or less of force; it is relatively high or low in pitch, it takes a longer or shorter time.
When you hold your breath for a longer or shorter time, or try to control it for any purpose of speech, you should do so by means of the muscles spoken of in "Dorsal Breathing," as being the ones used in right manner of breathing.
The white corpuscles stagnate, stick to the wall for a longer or shorter time, and often change their place, while the red corpuscles are in constant and progressive motion.
Henoch,[81] who has had the opportunity of observing a large number of cases, says that the rise of temperature is commonly more abrupt in children than in adults, and that the disease generally runs its course in a shorter time.
A teal, from fifteen to twenty minutes; and other birds of this kind, in proportion to their size, a longer or a shorter time.
Snipes and land rails are dressed exactly in the same manner as woodcocks, but only require a shorter time in roasting.
The windows should be opened occasionally for a longer or shorter time, according to the weather and season of the year, without suffering the air to come immediately upon the patient.
Of the daughters who stayed at home, some or all would be dedicated as Vestal Virgins for a longer or shorter time to the service of the fire on the hearth, and one of them would in time become the consort of her father's successor.
This assurance, so far as it concerns the supposed power of disengaging the soul from the body for a longer or shorter time, is amply corroborated by a comparison of the folk-tales in question with the actual beliefs and practices of savages.
The vacancy may be filled for a longer or shorter time, and this appears to be a question previous in its nature to be determined.
The nesting and other domestic habits are various, but the young are always hatched in a helpless condition and have to be fed and otherwise cared for by the parents for a longer or shorter time.
But all are nourished for a longer or shorter time by the milk secreted by the mammary gland of the mother.
In penetrating the skin which is left to macerate a longer or shorter time, the preservative molecules with which it is saturated enters all its pores, and preserves it for ever from the attacks of insects.
When these preparations are left a longer or shorter time in water, they are subjected to what is called a degorgement; the bath ought to be renewed until it will no longer receive any colouring matter.
The canals, which traverse certain bones, cannot, as we have already shown, be easily followed, unless the piece has remained for a longer or shorter timein an acid liquor.
But wherever the souls of the dead were imagined to dwell, we may infer that they were credited with the power of returning to earth for a longer or shorter time to benefit or injure the living.
At all events the Maoris undoubtedly believed that the souls of the departed survive the death of their bodies for a longer or shorter time and in their disembodied state can influence the living for weal or woe.
The Doctrine of the Human Soul Like other Polynesians, the Hervey Islanders believed that human beings are animated by a vital principle or soul, which survives the death of the body for a longer or shorter time.
The Windows of the Wards ought to be kept open to admit fresh Air Morning and Evening, for a longer or shorter Time, according as the Weather will permit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shorter time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
