I know that the shortness of my acquaintance with Miss Martin hardly warrants my presuming to address her; but will not time and the most devoted attachment work a change in my favour?
This alarming noise is due to the shortness and stiffness of the quill, or flight-feathers.
There is no better camp than a well-set-up lodge with a good fire crackling in the middle, and in this respect we were comfortable enough, but the shortness of food was telling rapidly.
This variety is characterised by the shortness of the incubation period, the rapidity of its progress, the severity of its symptoms, and its all but universally fatal issue in spite of treatment, death taking place in from one to four days.
A remarkable feature in such cases is the shortness of the interval between the original infection and the alleged re-infection; in a recent series of twenty-eight cases, this interval was less than a year.
No; the inefficacy of penal servitude did not lie in the shortness or inequality of sentences, but in the manner in which the punishment was inflicted.
I put this down to the worry and the shortness of food which I had to put up with, and though he lived till he was three years old and died from diphtheria.
It was from no fault of my husband that I had to suffer: it was from shortness of work.
You are going on, as fast as the infirmities you have contracted will permit, in the same course of study; but you begin to foresee that you shall want time, and you make grievous complaints of the shortness of human life.
I Of theShortness of Human Life II Rules for the Study of History.
And it serves to set the complaints about want of time, and the shortness of human life, in a very ridiculous but a true light.
At these words from the all-powerful Miss Gwynne, Mr Prothero was fain to put such check upon his rising choler as the shortness of the notice would allow.
I wish you would consider the shortness and uncertainty of life, and what is its end.
When we practise exercises of endurance, we find that certain children weary sooner, suffer from shortness of breath, and frequently drop out of the contest, in which the victory is reserved for others.
As to malformations of the human ear, which may consist of shortness or absence of the lobule (formerly interpreted as a simian inheritance) they are to-day attributed to physiological causes.
Combined with theshortness of such fingers there is also an extreme slenderness--cubital oligodactylia.
A considerable importance attaches to a form of thorax distinguished by the shortness of the clavicles, in consequence of which the chest remains flat, paralytic or flat thorax (habitus phthisicus).
There may even be a congenital absence of a phalanx, with a consequent notable shortness of the finger--brachydactylism.
Sure, I shall not find fault with your writing in haste, for anything but the shortness of your letter; and 'twould be very unjust in me to tie you to a ceremony that I do not observe myself.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness on't?
The most striking feature of the Bushman's physique is shortness of stature.
The upper lip was of a Grecian shortness and the corners descending.
It produces a much nearer coincidence between the civil and solar years than the Gregorian method; and, by reason of its shortness of period, confines the evagations of the mean equinox from the true within much narrower limits.
The savage Besisis of the Malay Peninsula fear to bury their dead at noon, because they fancy that the shortness of their shadows at that hour would sympathetically shorten their own lives.
One more Bishop of Calcutta we have since mourned; though theshortness of his career was owing to accident, not disease or climate.
He had latterly been showing marked signs of shortness of breath, and finally this became so painful to the animal that we decided to put an end to him.
Do you really think that any meditations on the shortness of life will soothe them in their afflictions?
Is not this very shortness itself one of their afflictions?
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
It is also consolatory to reflect on the shortness of the sufferings which led her from this world to a better.
Excuse the shortnessof this, but I must finish it now, that I may save you 2d.
The dental formula is as in the last, but the teeth of the molar series are remarkably short in the antero-posterior direction, corresponding with the shortness of the skull generally.
The shortness of the thicker ones at the angles is induced by the greater depth of the enlarged capitals: thus the 36th shaft is 10 ft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
