He received me in his library, and on my taking leave showed me a shorter way out of the house through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam overhead.
Nicholas says that from the time Boniface arrives till Clement relieves him will be a shorter period than that during which he has himself been in Inferno, that is to say, a shorter time than twenty years.
Complete evidence exists of Dante's having in his later years lived for a longer or shorter time in the three cities of Lucca, Verona, and Ravenna.
Dave looked at the shorter one and smiled apologetically, and touched a finger to his ear.
The check-in booth, sir,” the shorter of the two mechanics said.
Nothing yet,” replied the shorterof the other two.
They might have overtaken the fugitive if he had gone down the stairway to the lobby, but instead he chose a shorter route to a large open window at the other end of the hall.
Serbot's companion was shorter and chunkier, with a broad face, quick, narrow eyes, and straight lips.
Figure 3 shows the elongated wing of Tachyris zarinda, a native of Celebes, compared with the much shorter wing of Tachyris nero, a very closely allied species found in all the western islands.
It is almost exactly like a common game-cock, but the voice is different, being much shorter and more abrupt; hence its native name is Bekeko.
Did she realize how much shorter she was than she once had been?
Maud takes me out every day under the pine tree, makes me sit while she reads aloud Freeman's shorter work on Sicily.
In other words, unless the financial returns will warrant it, there is no good and positive reason for the electrification of our great trans- continental lines and even shorter railroads.
At the same time longer or shorter series of sparks corresponding to these signals pass across the gaps between the four balls, and give rise to longer or shorter series of etheric waves represented by the dotted line.
But this roundabout route of over twenty miles compared unfavourably with the shorter line taken by the Cam, which was accordingly the favourite for such as could afford boat-hire.
A large first makes recompense for the shorter second course of any man's table.
We left Mapani Mission at sunrise and took the shorter journey across the hills, the same path along which they had carried the body of Sister Doner the year previous.
It is the principal seaport of Cape Colony, as it furnishes a shorter and more direct route into the interior than Cape Town does.
At various times the non-Semitic hordes of Elam and the mountain districts to the east of Babylonia swept over the valley, and succeeded, for a longer or shorter period, in securing a firm foothold.
In both the longer and shorterlists of gods enumerated by the kings from the time of Tiglathpileser, the triad is conspicuous for its absence.
Some classes differed but little from that of servants, indentured for a longer or shorter period for certain services.
The face was different, the figure was shorter and fatter and its outline was curiously lumpy in places.
What if her skirts kept getting shorter and shorter (or what was more likely, narrower and narrower) like Cora's.
The Cub leader told the boys that the one who received the shorter stub of paper should be declared winner.
To his astonishment, it was a stub end--at least two inches shorter than the paper the other boy had drawn.
James asked a blessing, apologised for the coarseness of the fare, and despatched his portion of the repast in shorter time than a fashionable eater would take to stir about his coffee and crack the shell of his egg.
As for me, what matters it whether my time is to be a day shorter or a day longer!
From the depression, two long and delicate cilia proceed, one shorter than the other, and directed forwards.
In the Cainotherium, also, the second metacarpal is developed, but is muchshorter than the third, while the fifth is absent or rudimentary.
The shorter cilium vibrates actively, and effects the locomotion of the organism, while the other trails behind; the whole body rolling on its axis with its pointed end forwards.
Propelled by these, it swims about for a longer or shorter time, but at length comes to a state of rest and gradually grows into a Coleochaete.
If I were to cut off the tail, I should cease to find any spontaneous motion in it; but on pinching any portion of the flesh, I should observe that it underwent a very curious change--each fibre becoming shorter and thicker.
A more interesting animal is the Ctenomys magellanica, a little less than the rat in size, with a shorter tail, pale grey fur, and red incisors.
After this it consisted of postponements, due to reluctance that she should run risks from moving till quite strong again, but growing shorter and shorter as Dr.
If you could tell me this, the fool's passion would at least be all the shorter lived.
The planet with the longer or with the shorter period of revolution?
On the other hand, as the last line of the Spenserian and similar stanzas the alexandrine has proved very melodious and effective, largely by contrast with the shorter lines.
It merely means recognizing the equivalence, and therefore the possibility of interchange, of a long interval with two or moreshorter intervals whose sum equals the one long.
Several variations were used in the seventeenth century consisting of shorter lines with a closing alexandrine, 117.
Being unable to formulate these longings, the laborer limits his demands to the two things which the walking delegate tells him are the only things necessary--shorter hours and more pay.
There are only two demands that a laborer knows how to make: He can ask shorter hours, and he can demand more wages, but neither will satisfy, for neither is the thing he needs.
The shorter the quarters are the better the meat, and the fore as well as the hind quarter.
The shorter the neck the better and fatter the bird.
Illustration: Mr. Elder, unable to push through the narrow pass of Consecration, was compelled to take the "Shorter and Broader Way to Heaven.
There is but one shorter route, and that is underground.
Is there no shorter way thither than by that winding path?
There was an intense class conflict going on in Russia, as the large number of strikes for increased wages and shorter hours proved, yet the larger political struggle dwarfed and obscured the class struggle.
These were quickly followed by important strikes in the industrial centers for economic ends--better wages andshorter working-hours.
Also, should Rojdestvensky choose the shorter route, he could pass either to the east or to the west of Tsushima Island.
