Your geometry states it as an axiom that a straight line is theshortest way from one point to another; and astronomy shows you that God has given motion only in curves.
The shortest pause or intermission they called comma as who would say a peece of a speach cut of.
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.
Gevrol; "we will take the Rue d'Ivry, and then cut through the shortest way to the Rue de Chevaleret.
Just then an empty cab chanced to be passing, and Lecoq hastily got into it, telling the driver to take him to the Northern Railway Station by the shortest route and as quickly as possible.
I know, my dear mother, you can say most of the shortest psalms by heart; so I need not transcribe it, especially as your chief treasure is a bible; and a worthy treasure it is.
My master said, Tell her one of theshortest you have, in my hearing.
He thinking, as he said afterwards, that the former was rather of the longest, chose the shortest in the book, which you know is the cxviith.
Having nothing whatever to do, our Colonel's movements are of course exceedingly rapid, and he has the very shortest time to spend in any single place.
It is to be shown that the time of passage of light along AB and BC taken together, is the shortest that can be.
Hence it appears that the time along ABC is the shortest possible; which was to be proven.
In shortestspace we left these signs of life behind, and I began to think toward the end.
I said I could guess; and he began again, volubly now, as if to have it over in the shortest space.
That is none of your affair, Colonel Tarleton," I retorted boldly, thinking that with such a man theshortest word were ever the best.
They'll starve us out in shortest measure at this rate," he prophesied.
We were afloat in shortest order, holding the canoe against the current by clinging to the overhanging trees that fringed the bank; yet with paddles poised for a second dash for freedom should the need arise.
And the shortest and best route is up the hill to the left.
The only sound rule governing factory industry especially is this: the longest possible machine time, the shortest possible man time.
The boy retired, and sped away by the shortest paths towards his brother-in-law's cottage.
Darby the Swift; or, the Longest Way round is the Shortest Way Home, 68.
Your Ladyship may leave this on Thursday," said Jekyl, who well knew that he was paying the most flattering compliment to Midchekoff in naming the shortest possible time for preparation.
One was Europe or rather Southern Europe, the other was the East Indies; and the great problem was to find the best and shortest way from the one point to the other.
Again turning west, he reached Fort Miami late in the autumn of 1681, and on the shortest day his expedition left Lake Michigan.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whole trembling limbs have borne him to your door; Whole days are dwindled to the shortest span, Oh!
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door; Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, Oh!
Thus, for example, except the highest degree of the barometer, no other was so agreeable to him as the lowest, and the shortest day was as welcome as the longest; but the day after either was fatal.
The days are now come to their shortest date; And must, in time, by course, increase again.
Highway, whither it were best, to retire ourselves betimes; the shortest errors being the best.
Errors, in time, may be redrest," "The shortest follies are the best.
This Sonnet was devised upon the shortest day of the year.
Let the axes of the wrench and the twist be inclined at an angle [theta], and let h be the shortestdistance between them.
As regards the configuration of this complex, consider a line whose shortest distance from the central axis is r, and whose inclination to the central axis is [theta].
Again, since the shortest distance between any two conjugate lines cuts the central axis at right angles, the orthogonal projections of two conjugate lines on a plane perpendicular to the central axis will be parallel (fig.
Let AB be the shortest distance between the lines of action, and let AA', BB' (fig.
It's the shortest way, and the only course to follow if we want to know what has become of them.
Acting upon the mathematical theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, the guide made a break for the spring, howling like a madman.
Being able to sleep on the shortest notice, I usually took advantage of these intervals to get a nap, awaking greatly refreshed after a few minutes' sound sleep.
Judging by the determined look on some of the pilgrims' faces, they were bent on making the grand tour in the shortest time possible; in fact, they almost raced up the breakneck staircases.
The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortesttrade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
The King of Prussia declined the invitation, replying that his shortest journey was through Belgium and that his time was fully engaged.
He was going to Gastein by way of Warsaw, which is not the shortest route.
What they wanted was that lots should be drawn, and that he who drew the shortest should be put to death, and the one next should be the executioner.
Privateering was the shortest and easiest way he knew of, and as his professional knowledge and experience fitted him for the life, he took the command of the Black Joke.
The fire companies at the first alarm, in scarlet shirts, turned out on shortest notice, at a dead run on "shanks' mare.
The subscriber informs his Friends and the Gentlemen of Alexandria that he intends providing oyster suppers at his house this winter on the most moderate terms and at the shortest notice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: direct; few; least; lowest; minimal; minimum
