Short Sentence Examples
Life's too short as it is.
His stunt tonight was nothing short of jealousy.
In short, she had a cushion job.
After a short silence he rose.
I just need a short break.
Hard life is a short life, for most folks around here.
His laugh was short and humorless.
After what seemed like a short wait, they boarded another plane.
Mrs. Graves is making short dresses for Natalie.
Then he noticed when he bred tall pea plants with another tall plant, he occasionally got a short offspring, but usually tall ones.
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His laugh was short and harsh.
Naw. I'm a short timer with mostly circulars on my desk.
Dad had taken a short cut then.
Even she would have had trouble working with something so little, but his big hands dispensed with the job in short order.
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He would fly to Los Angeles, then transfer for the short hop north to Santa Barbara.
If it were a person, it still couldn't even order a beer to toast itself for all it has done in such a short time.
Twenty-five days later, while she was on a short visit away from home, she wrote to her mother.
We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.
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He had a habit of stopping short in the middle of his talk and gazing intently with his laughing, kindly eyes.
After a short silence the countess spoke again but this time no one replied.
But, noticing his mistake, he broke off short and, with a frown, greeted Dolokhov as a stranger, asking what he could do for him.
Dolokhov, as if he had not heard the question, did not reply, but lighting a short French pipe which he took from his pocket began asking the officer in how far the road before them was safe from Cossacks.
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Sarah glanced up with a short laugh.
I have plans too, you know - and they don't include dropping out three months short of graduation.
She stopped short at the wagon.
He led her down a short hallway and opened the first door.
I'm in another country, if only for a short while to see if the pickings here are to my liking.
Any conversations I had with Martha were short, bordering on abrupt.
There is no excuse for short play on his part, and his bowls would be better off the green than obstructing the path of subsequent bowls.
For a short period the day was changed to Tuesday, but the market was given up before 1888.
At the Restoration in 1660 he was arrested for preaching, and after a short period of freedom he was again seized, and he remained in prison for seven years.
A short distance south of the city is Red Mountain, 25 m.
It was based on a short confession drafted by Calvin in 1557, and may still be regarded, though once or twice revised, as the confession of the French Protestant Church.
He noticed that when he bred a tall one with a short one, sometimes he got tall offspring and sometimes a short offspring.
He then noticed that when he bred short ones with short ones, he always got short ones.
Dictators, in short, are the scourge of the earth.
We were sitting together in a hammock which swung from two solemn pines at a short distance from the house.
Sometimes she tries to spell very short words on her small [fingers] but she is too young to remember hard words.
Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with low neck and short sleeves and quite a train?
Since I wrote you, Helen and I have gone to live all by ourselves in a little garden-house about a quarter of a mile from her home, only a short distance from Ivy Green, the Keller homestead.
As we were passing a large globe a short time after she had written the questions, she stopped before it and asked, "Who made the REAL world?"
The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite grayish color.
When her hair was done, Natasha, in her short petticoat from under which her dancing shoes showed, and in her mother's dressing jacket, ran up to Sonya, scrutinized her, and then ran to her mother.
Early in the morning of the sixth of October Pierre went out of the shed, and on returning stopped by the door to play with a little blue- gray dog, with a long body and short bandy legs, that jumped about him.
We're short handed so you wind up taking care of your own team and wagon.
It was in her mind to tell Claudette to take a long walk off a short pier, but a cool voice interrupted them at that moment.
Several more men entered the library, all staring at her in nothing short of total surprise.
She didn't recognize them from her short stay there.
Even for a short time to try to relax.
The crack of the wooden door registered a short second before his hand gripped her throat.
Unlike Darkyn, whose hair was short, Zamon's long hair was captured in a braid.
She was enthralled with the lengthy explanation and they were surprised in the telling how much had happened in the short time she was away.
Sheet-covered, her remains lay in Dean's office, only feet from where she had lain naked against him so short a time before.
You've come a long way in a short time.
Hilden took her arm quickly and led her a short distance away into a darkened alley.
This one wore a short sleeved shirt, jeans and white sneakers.
It grows in short grass in the temperate regions of all parts of the world.
For a short while he was at the head of the new Hessian administration; but his ambition was to share in the creation of a united Germany.
The Territorial Army and its reserve (members of which undergo two short periods of training) are, however, allocated to local service.
Here, after a short illness, he died on the 23rd of October 1893.
He became a member of parliament, and was sent in 1562 as ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566; and in 1572 he again went to France in the same capacity for a short time.
He produced the first edition in 1861, and a fourth, revised and enlarged, was only completed a short time before his death.
I was in haste to buy it, before the proprietor finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the hollow apple trees, and grubbing up some young birches which had sprung up in the pasture, or, in short, had made any more of his improvements.
Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with good-sized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.
Ashley stood a short distance away, between two vamps.
Only the bulls have horns, and these are short and insignificant.
Except on Charles Island, where settlement has existed longest, little or no influence of the presence of man is evident in the group; still, the running wild of dogs and cats, and, as regards the vegetation, especially goats, must in a comparatively short period greatly modify the biological conditions of the islands.
He died, after a short illness, in his seventy-sixth year, on the 15th of September 1781.
However, when ravaging the country near Alnwick, William was taken prisoner in July 1174, and after a short captivity at Richmond was carried to Normandy, where he soon purchased his release by assenting in December 1174 to the treaty of Falaise.
In the winter coat the hair is long and pendent, elongated into a short beard on the sides of the lower jaw behind the chin; and it is also longer than elsewhere on the neck and the chest; at the base of the long hair is a thick growth of short and woolly under-fur.
In summer the coat becomes comparatively short.
The muzzle is hairy, the ears are of moderate size, and the tail is short, and partially buried among the long hair of the rump. There are no glands on the face; but there is a large globular one at the base of each horn of the size of half a small orange..
The black horns, which are ringed in their basal portion, are comparatively short and not unlike those of the Asiatic serows in general characters, being subcylindrical, and curving slightly backwards.
Whether a pouch is present or not, the young are born in an exceedingly imperfect state of development, after a very short period of gestation, and are immediately transferred by the female parent to the teats, where they remain firmly attached for a considerable time; the milk being injected into their mouths at intervals by means of a special muscle which compresses the glands.
The short period of this evolution is at least one factor in the primitive grade of even the most specialized members of the group. In the advance of their molar teeth from a tritubercular to a grinding type, the author traces a curious parallelism between marsupials and placentals.
Tail of moderate length, thick at the base and tapering towards the apex, clothed with short hair_ First hind toe (including the metacarpal bone) absent.
Tail rather short, clothed with short depressed hairs.
Fore feet with the functional toes reduced to two, the second and third, of equal length, with closely united metacarpals and short, sharp, slightly curved, compressed claws.
Tail not quite so long as the body, and covered with short hairs.
A separate family, Notoryctidae, is represented by the marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops), of the deserts of south Central Australia, a silky, golden-haired, burrowing creature, with a curious leathery muzzle, and a short, naked stumpy tail.
The tympanic process of the alisphenoid bone of the skull is short, not covering the cavity of the tympanum, nor reaching the paroccipital process.
Hind-feet with a very short nailless first toe, the second, third and fourth toes partially united by integument, of nearly equal length, the fifth distinct and rather shorter; all four with long and curved nails.
Hind-feet short and broad, with five welldeveloped toes; the first large, nailless and opposable; the second and third slender and united by a common integument as far as.
Tail longer than the body and head, scantily clothed with short hairs, prehensile.
Definitely incorporated with this country in 1853, it experienced another change of fortune after the short war of 1864 between Denmark on the one side and Prussia and Austria on the other, as by the peace of Vienna (30th of October 1864) it was ceded with Schleswig and Holstein to the two German powers.
Xerxes II., who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monument, and still less could the usurper Sogdianus (Secydianus).
On the arrival of Amadeus in Spain, Ruiz Zorilla became minister of public works for a short time, and resigned by way of protesting against Serrano and Topete entering the councils of the new king.
Flowing into the Pacific Ocean on the east coast there are some fine rivers, but the majority have short and rapid courses.
These run in wet seasons, but in every instance for a short distance only, and sooner or later they are lost in sand-hills, where their waters disappear and a line of stunted gum-trees (Eucalyptus rostrata) is all that is present to indicate that there may be even a soakage to mark the abandoned course.
The rock wallabies again have short tarsi of the hind legs, with a long pliable tail for climbing, like that of the tree kangaroo of New Guinea, or that of the jerboa.
The census of Western Australia included only those aborigines in the employment of the colonists; and as a large part of this, the greatest of the Australian states, is as yet unexplored, it may be presumed that the aborigines enumerated were very far short of the whole number of persons of that race in the state.
Messrs Hamilton Hume and Hovell set out from Lake George, crossed the Murrumbidgee, and, after following the river for a short distance, struck south, skirting the foothills of what are now known as the Australian Alps until they reached a fine river, which was called the Hume after the leader's father.
After resting in Perth for a short time, he commenced the return journey, which was made for the most part between the 24th and 25th parallels, and again successfully traversed the desert, reaching the overland telegraph line in about seven months.
The Labour party held power in the Commonwealth for a short period, and has had the balance of power in its hands ever since the formation of the Commonwealth.
He died on the 18th of May 1807, and a volume of Miscellaneous Works, prefaced by a short biography, was published in 1820.
A short time afterwards Artabanus was deposed again, and a certain Cinnamus was proclaimed king.
Finance, commerce, the national armaments by sea and land, judicial procedure, church government, education, even art and science - everything, in short - emerged recast from his shaping hand.
Driven from Strassburg by the authorities, after a short imprisonment in December 1531, he tried to make a living in 1532 as a soapboiler at Esslingen, removing in 1533 for a better market to Ulm, where (October 28, 1 534) he was admitted as a burgess.
Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.
The liver being regarded as the seat of the blood, it was a natural and short step to identify the liver with the soul as well as with the seat of life, and therefore as the centre of all manifestations of vitality and activity.
If, for example, the porta hepatis was long on the right side and short on the left side, it was a good sign for the king's army, but if short on the right side and long on the left, it was unfavourable; and similarly for a whole series of phenomena connected with any one of the various subdivisions of the liver.
Only an insignificant fraction of these forests has ever been visited by human beings, the Malays and even the aboriginal tribe having their homes on the banks of the rivers, and never, even when travelling from one part of the country to another, leaving the banks of a stream except for a short time when passing from one river-system to another.
The number of rainy days throughout the peninsula varies from 160 to over 200 in each year, but violent gusts of wind, called " Sumatras," accompanied by a heavy downpour of short duration, are more common than persistent rain.
He graduated from Union College in 1820, having taught school for a short time at Savannah, Georgia, to help pay his expenses; was admitted to the bar at Utica, N.Y., in 1822, and in the following year began the practice of law at Auburn, N.Y., which was his home for the rest of his life.
The catkins appear soon after the young leaves, usually in England towards the end of May; the acorns, oblong in form, are in shallow cups with short, scarcely projecting scales; the fruit is shed the first autumn, often before the foliage changes.
The leaves are frequently irregular in outline, the lobes rather short and blunt, widening towards the end, but with setaceous points; the acorns are nearly globular.
Ilex, usually a smaller tree, frequently of rather shrub-like appearance, with abundant glossy dark-green leaves, generally ovate in shape and more or less prickly at the margin, but sometimes with the edges entire; the under surface is hoary; the acorns are oblong on short stalks.
Although they held the town but a short time they inflicted very great damage, destroying many churches, further damaging the castles and carrying off much treasure.
At an early age he entered the cloister; and in 423 he became bishop of Cyrrhus, a small city in a wild district between Antioch and the Euphrates, where, except for a short period of exile, he spent the remainder of his life.
For a short time he was a Privatdozent at Bonn, but in 1859 he was appointed director of the Mannheim Observatory.
Fichte, in short, advocates an ethical theism, and his arguments might easily be turned to account by the apologist of Christianity.
A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.
During the short reign of Valentinian there were wars in Africa, in Germany and in Britain, and Rome came into collision with barbarian peoples of whom we now hear for the first time - Burgundians, Saxons, Alamanni.
The great storm of the Mutiny of 1857, though dangerous while it lasted, was short.
Hence for sending both a dot and a dash, reverse currents of short duration are sent through the line, but the interval between the reversal is three times as great for the dash as for the dot.
For the dot the armature is deflected by the first current, the ink-wheel being brought into contact with the paper and after a short interval pulled back by the reverse current.
The Murray automatic system is not regarded as suitable for short telegraph lines or moderate traffic, printing telegraphs on the multiplex principle being considered preferable in such circumstances.
After a very short interval of time, the length of which depends on the inductive retardation of the cable, the condensers corresponding to C 1 and C3 at the other end begin to be charged from the cable, and since the charge of C3 passes through the receiving instrument I or G the signal is recorded.
The short leg of the siphon tube dips into an insulated ink-bottle, so' that the ink it contains becomes electrified, while the long leg has its open end at a very small distance from a brass table, placed with its surface parallel to the plane in which the mouth of the leg moves, and over which a slip of paper may be passed at a uniform rate, as in the spark recorder.
Hence, by inserting a break-and-make key in the circuit of the battery, coil or dynamo, the uniform noise or hum in the telephone can be cut up into periods of long and short noises, which can be made to yield the signals of the Morse alphabet.
By the use of a key in the battery circuit as well as an interrupter or current reverser, signals can be given by breaking up the continuous hum in the telephone into long and short periods.
If a battery on the mainland is connected through a key with the shore end of the main cable, and a speaking galvanometer is in circuit with the short cable crossing the Fastnet rock, then closing or opening the battery connexion will create a deflection of the galvanometer.
Owing to the rough seas sweeping over the Fastnet, the conditions are such that any ordinary submarine cable would be broken by the wearing action of the waves at the rock boundary in a very short time.
The signals were sent by cutting up the continuous hum in the telephone into long and short periods in accordance with the Morse code by manipulating the key in the primary circuit.
These trains are produced by pressing the key in the primary circuit of the induction coil for a longer or shorter time' and generating a long or short series of oscillatory electric sparks between the spark balls with a corresponding creation of trains of electric waves.
When electric waves fell on the antenna they caused the mercury-steel junction to become conductive during the time they endured, and the siphon recorder therefore to write signals consisting of short or long deflexions of its pen and therefore notches of various length on the ink line drawn on the strip of telegraphic tape.
This creates a short sound in the telephone.
Hence according as the trains of oscillations are long or short so is the sound heard in the telephone, and these sounds can be arranged on the Morse code into alphabetic audible signals.
By the middle of 1905 a very large number of vessels had been equipped with the Marconi short distance and long distance wireless telegraph apparatus for intercommunication and reception of messages from power stations on both sides of the Atlantic, and the chief navies of the world had adopted the apparatus.
He showed that if an antenna were constructed with a short part of its length vertical and the greater part horizontal, the lower end of the vertical part being earthed, and if oscillations were created in it, electric waves were sent out most powerfully in the plane of the antenna and in the direction opposite to that in which the free end pointed.
The condenser method of making oscillations is analogous to the production of air vibrations by twanging a harp string at short intervals.
This only answers, however, for telephoning musical sounds to short distances.
It was soon found that it could only be used to advantage in this way when the total resistance of the circuit, exclusive of the microphone, was small compared with the resistance of the microphone - that is, on very short lines worked with FIG.
As subscribers' lines are invariably short, the smallest gauge of wire possessing the mechanical strength necessary to withstand the stresses to which it may be subjected can be employed, and bronze wire weighing 40 lb per mile is commonly used.
Attempts have been made to improve submarine cables in this respect, and in 1906 a short cable " loaded " with Pupin coils was laid across Lake Constance.
The problem, however, of constructing a deep-sea cable satisfactorily, with suitable inductance coils inserted at short distances apart, is a difficult one, and one which it cannot be said has been solved.
In short, all-round competition was authorized, and the Post Office decided to establish a telephone system in London in competition with the company.
The leaf has a broadly sheathing base succeeded by a short stalk bearing the pitcher, which represents a much enlarged midrib with a winglike lamina.
The central range here approaches much nearer to the sea, and hence, with few exceptions, the rivers that flow from it have short courses and are of comparatively little importance.
From the neighborhood of Potenza, the main ridge of the Apennines is continued by the Monti della Maddalena in a direction nearly due south, so that it approaches within a short distance of the Gulf of Policastro, whence it is carried on as far as the Monte Pollino, the last of the lofty summits of the Apennine chain, which exceeds 7000 ft.
Heavy falls of snow in June are not uncommon, and only for a short time towards the end of July are the nights totally exempt from light frosts.
Physical characteristics differ widely; but as a whole the Italian is somewhat short of stature, with dark or black hair and eyes, often good looking.
The horse had stopped short, and stood firm as a rock.
A nearby steeple had been broken off short and the fragments lay heaped beside it.
He called to one of his officers and bade him sit down and write a short order for him.
He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
Then my teacher went to visit some friends in Boston, leaving me for a short time.
He has on short dresses now.
By signs she made me understand that she wished another story, and I gave her a book containing very short stories, written in the most elementary style.
It could readily ascend the sides of the room by short impulses, like a squirrel, which it resembled in its motions.
The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered.
Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression.
The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs.
Pierre concluded that this also was essential, and after a short interval followed her.
The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlovski, who was rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him.
Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder.
After a short period of adapting himself to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be at home again.
During Rostov's short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he did not draw closer to Sonya, but rather drifted away from her.
Only on horse back and in the mazurka was Denisov's short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow he felt himself to be.
The near side horse, arching his head and breaking into a short canter, tugged at his traces.
Balaga was a fair-haired, short, and snub-nosed peasant of about twenty- seven; red-faced, with a particularly red thick neck, glittering little eyes, and a small beard.
His short hair had evidently just been brushed, but one lock hung down in the middle of his broad forehead.
He was still lying on the bed as before, but the stern expression of his quiet face made Princess Mary stop short on the threshold.
Two girls of about ten and twelve, dressed in dirty short frocks and cloaks, were staring at their mother with a look of stupefaction on their pale frightened faces.
The woman's husband, a short, round- shouldered man in the undress uniform of a civilian official, with sausage-shaped whiskers and showing under his square-set cap the hair smoothly brushed forward over his temples, with expressionless face was moving the trunks, which were placed one on another, and was dragging some garments from under them.
He sat in his short overcoat leaning against a birch tree.
The shadow made her long legs look short.
I closed my eyes and swallowed my sobs on the short trip to the police facility.
She felt his body heat from the short distance between them and recognized his scent from the sheets.
It was too short for her to see clearly, and she crossed to the mirror on the other side of the room.
She looked up at Darian a short distance away, watching his dark-light power streak around the room.
The drive home was too short, and she reached the large manor at noon.
Jule lay on the ground a short distance away.
The familiar path down the coastline passed the Cliffs of Moher and continued for a short distance.
There were few things in life she was certain about, and one of them was that she'd felt safer with Jule during their short time together than she ever did with her father.
As she hopped the short distance from rocks to the ground leading up to the compound, she caught the silhouettes of two men against the cloudy sky.
Lacy wore a skirt too short and tight for office wear, but when you're the boss … "I noticed you've been taking a lot of sick time lately," Lacy said as Sofia entered the room.
To the three of them, the drastic changes that occurred over such a short time span after thousands of years of no change were a warning sign.
Nothing short of miraculous!
A short time later, she sagged against the toilet, ignoring Pierre as he tsked and held her hair.
Her breaths came in short gasps, but she refused to back down.
His gaze was direct, just short of demanding.
Her chest was tight and her breath short, but she knew there was one way to find out what happened to Damian.
Just under six feet tall, wide-shouldered and lean, Darkyn's youthful appearance was framed by short, dark hair.
A short time later, when she was too exhausted to move, she lay still and silent on her side.
She crossed the short distance to her mate and paused in front of him, breathing in his dark scent.
Poor Martha lacked even a minimal paper trail on her short, disjointed life.
Martha didn't answer but after a short time she asked to be excused.
Bird Song's managerial pair tried to present a breakfast happy face over coffee cake and muffins, but their efforts continued to fall short as they waited for Martha to make an appearance.
The inn, not large by city standards, was constantly in need of attention, especially in this, the short but hectic high season.
Paulette Dawkins was a short but massive chunk of good living who didn't know how to dress.
He knew Cynthia wanted to update him on her talk with Martha, but both realized time was short as they planned to take Martha to dinner for her last night under Bird Song's wing.
After a short wait, the four were seated in a booth and began to work on chips and salsa as the adults ordered drinks.
Your bosom buddy Jake's on a short leave.
It was the short haul that needed work.
Dean acknowledged he was still there and started to make an excuse for Cynthia's exit but Randy cut him short.
Cynthia asked, cutting the game short as Mrs. Lincoln leaped into her lap, purring like a buzz saw.
He turned and without hesitation, began the short ascent to the mine without even inquiring about directions.
There remained a short but muddy and drenching hike, only partially covered by the inadequate umbrella.
After the requisite comments on the beauties of Ouray and the surrounding mountains, Faust explained he was from California, here on business—for a short stay, he added.
I would have called you in to talk with her but she cut the conversation short.
David Dean was hanging patriotic bunting by dawn's early light when Cynthia finished setting out the usual assortment of pastries for the guests and joined her husband for the short walk to the Community Center.
I was checking out a point guard who proved to be too short.
The Deans drove the short distance to the Beaumont to pick up their guest, who was standing outside at the curb waiting for them.
I have few opportunities like this and the season is so short.
He began first a short ascent, then a drop to a sharp curve he nearly missed, causing him to reduce his speed further.
You don't print up those signs and take out newspaper ads on that short notice.
Her side of the conversation consisted of a short series of no's.
Dean's victory was short lived.
Dean left Bird Song on foot, passing up the temptation to drive his Jeep the short distance to the Main Street delicatessen.
But his trip was of short duration.
It was dark as he peddled, headlamp on, down the side streets of the now-quiet town and out the back road the short distance to Lydia's place.
She took short breaths, as if it hurt to talk.
Look Jake, you're a short timer.
Towels were in short supply, rooms needed quick cleaning, and Cynthia, Maria, and Dean had their hands full.
Life is too short to spend it with repetition of old dreams that never happened.
Short, dark hair framed a face with plain features that showed the signs of a lifetime of battle.
Landon waited for him a short distance away.
Her fingers ran through his short hair.
Any pain she caused was going to be short lived and quickly fixed, when she revealed herself to Gabriel once more and told him they could be together.
Deidre crossed the short distance to her mate and paused in front of him.
A teenage girl with a scarred face framed by short dark hair and tiny fangs marking her as a demoness trailed her.
The suit jacket had not been altered to accommodate Jonathan's short arms.
For her, the last fourteen months had been nothing short of heaven on earth.
And yet, in spite of her comment about only being there for a short time, Lori came back several times to visit Destiny.
He cut her scream short with a wet kiss planted over her lips.
Lori's laugh was short and humorless.
Short of fighting him off as she would an attacker, there was nothing she could do but submit.
He typed a short sentence, and then stopped.
Because I was short with you?
Entertained by her pep talk with the flowers, Deidre reached her towering apartment building a short time later and paused to collect the mail.
Life's too short to waste a night like this.
Her time was too short to turn away a tall, dark, handsome, intriguing, dangerous stranger she met on the beach in the moonlight who smelled good.
Gabriel stood a short distance away.
His tone was matter-of-fact, his answers short.
Crossing through, she emerged outside, in the forest, a short distance outside the low walls around the massive fortress.
The brothers were standing beside each other a short distance away.
He strode through more corridors than she was able to count, down several flights of stairs and finally to a short, dead end hallway with a ceiling that towered ten stories above.
Andre was dressed in cashmere and wool, his hair kept short and neat, his loafers more expensive than Kris's conference room had cost to build.
The voice sounded like the sultry growl of a woman, but it had short hair and no breasts.
She swung the boulder up, ducking as it slapped the side of the cliff just short of the ledge and fell back to her.
She rested on her back for a short time before forcing herself up to sit up and look around.
They were in a burnt-out room…with the Arc de Triomphe a short distance away.
She wrote Kris a short message and folded the paper, presenting it to Gabriel.
His conversation was short and curt before he tossed it.
He trailed Kiki out of the castle to the boulders a short distance from the walls.
Hannah returned a short time later, the only thing that interrupted Giovanni's ramblings.
The distance to the beach was short in her dream, her body full of fear and adrenaline.
She paused a short distance from him, sensing something wrong.
She rubbed the lumpy scar on her arm, her attention caught by the sight of a jaguar dropping from a tree branch to the edge of the park and the forest a short distance away.
Wings, short fur, fangs the size of her forearm … she moved farther into the bathroom, lest she draw his attention.
His long wings beat the air as he rose, and it took him a short two minutes to soar over the castle.
And your time is running short.
She was pacing the hall in front of the dining area when Hannah emerged a short time later carrying a large tote.
The tallest looked a great deal like Andre, the deceased Immortal she.d met a short time before he was killed.
A lot has changed in so short a time.
The window of her weakness was short, only a week in mortals. time, but long enough for him to act.
He moved a short distance away to more level ground and lowered himself into a fighting stance.
She doubted the back way was more dangerous than a short cut.
She trailed her fingers down a wall, smiling when she saw soft glimmers light up beneath her touch, trail her fingers a short distance, and blink out.
They stopped a short time later and surrounded a metal door.
The two women had just called her short and fat.
She thinks everyone here views her as short and fat.
They waited a short time longer before the prisoner shifted to rise.
He stood a short distance from her, watching her intently.
His lifemate's expressive eyes prevented her from appearing composed; she had looked either frightened or confused during their short interaction.
The youngest skittered away in excitement, crowding each other and whispering a short distance away.
They walked a short distance to an open atrium in the center of the house, complete with a small oasis rising up from white stone and curved benches.
Kiera would never agree to marry someone in so short of a time, but to agree in any amount of time to a man as lethal in appearance as this?
She imagined the conversation was nothing short of torture for a warrior.
There was a short silence.
When she could focus again, she stopped short.
In the short time since he left, she had forgotten how buff he was.
The short time together had been enough to remind her just how strong the bond was between them.
He approached and stood a short distance behind her, watching once more.
He gave Talal a short bow she took as dismissal, then waited for her to pad out of sight.
He stood outside a closed door down a short hallway lined with warriors.
The sun brightened up the studio a short time later, her reminder it was time for her midmorning walk.
Dean started to protest but his wife began carrying the packed ornaments from the room and asked in her sweetest tone if he could remove the now-dried Christmas tree and finish a short list of Bird Song chores she'd drawn up earlier.
I'm far too short myself or I'd try it on.
And there are 'teddy' guys, you know, guys who drool over those short little outfits that leave nothing to the imagination.
He kissed Cynthia good-bye and strolled the sun-lit streets the short distance to Sheriff Jake Weller's office behind the courthouse.
However, winter locked the mountain jeep roads beneath yards of snow for all but a few short summer weeks.
The foursome rode the gondola the short distance down from the parking area to the central village complex, with Donnie looking down, wide-eyed from the swinging car.
He then added, "But when your sister was so snooty about the coins and other items and short changed Fred O'Connor, we decided to keep the notebook."
A short distance further, he was surprised for the second time when he caught sight of Janet O'Brien.
And just where was Mrs. Dean when Jerome found himself on the short end of a cut rope?
Not only was he miffed at Weller's attitude, but at the short length of his own fuse.
Give me your short list.
Here's my short list Fred, for what it's worth.
He himself could have cut the rope—the short end they found tied up top— set up a second rappel at a nearby spot and gone down on it.
Dean knew he was being foolish beyond any measure of reason to venture even the short distance that would allow him to see beyond the overhang.
Shipton cut a short section of rope and left it up there so it would look like someone cut it when he was part way to the bottom.
She also said you were lovers for a short time many years ago.
No… there is some discomfort for a short time, I wouldn't call it pain.
He put his head back and closed his eyes for a short time, but the pounding headache and the burning in his throat only intensified.
I just don't want our kids to go through life being teased about being short.
I mean, look at Alex and I. We're both short, and both Mom and Dad were average height.
No doubt Katie was going to say something about short people and thought better of it for fear of hurting feelings.
Still, there must have been someone in the family who was short.
She wished she could share Katie's faith in her brother, but the only picture she could summons was a short, pale, overweight man with more brains for business than aptitude in mechanics.
His black curly hair was cut short, every hair in place, and his angular jaws were freshly shaven.
Looking up into his face, it occurred to her that he was considerably shorter than Josh, and yet he didn't seem short.
As her fingers closed around the doorknob, Alex brought her up short.
The sharp command brought the dog up short.
A quick count indicated they were still one goat short.
The muscular woman, with short blond hair and clad in black tactical gear, stood in a stark white hallway.
She reached the command hub to find the general pacing in front while three guards waited a short distance from him.
Most were short phrases that looked like orders.
Her gaze went to the laser gun he'd tossed a short distance away.
If the flares going up short distance away were any sign, the five men were part of a larger force between them and their destination.
A short brunette waved her over.
The dream was sweet and short.
The dream seemed so short, but the sky had begun to lighten on the horizon. The dream faded as he sat up. Toby stood nearby, his young face solemn.
Andre ran beside them a short distance away.
She had short brown hair and kind hazel eyes.
When they entered the living room, they stopped short when they saw me.
On the far side of the roadway, the man walked the short distance to the pathway that led to the beach.
Her hair was short and dark and worn in an easy style that seemed to require little care.
The 32-year-old detective with bright red crew cut and opened-collar sports shirt looked as if nothing short of a catastrophe would cause him a lick of concern.
Hunter and Dean exchanged information during the short drive to the Ocean Shore Motel.
He was a loner and no one could recall him having contact with anyone else during his short stay.
Finally Dean stumbled up the stairs for a short nap.
Dean tucked the list in his pocket and walked the short distance around the corner to Police Headquarters.
He briefly explained the situation to Winston, who had no problem detouring for the short time it would take to question the youth.
Just a short pleasure trip on his day off, Dean lied to himself.
After showering and dressing, he wrote a short note explaining he would be at police headquarters until midmorning and slipped it under her door.
Billie—it was official now, identified or guessed at by the weeping Ida Wasserman, accompanied to the mortuary by Andy Sackler, who drew the short straw.
Jenny Nachman pulled the short straw to carry the news to Ida Wassermann.
It was an unforgettable day and Dean never once thought of the missing Mr. Byrne until mid-afternoon while they were taking a short break and Cynthia mentioned his name.
A short, balding man, who looked as if a haircut was more a social event than a necessity, rose to leave, and with a glance at the back room said, "Ol' Ralph always was a bit weird."
Randy cut the call short, telling the young lady his mother hadn't returned and he was awaiting her call.
After a quick stop at home to change clothes and to leave a short note to Fred, Dean was on the road.
Cynthia was there, seated alone in a cramped corner, looking beautiful in something summery, short and yellow, unsmiling but nodding in acknowledgment of his greeting.
At first he didn't spot her and cursed the fact that Cynthia was so short.
Dean walked a short distance down the hall.
After a series of phone calls to Denver and some monstrous lies, Dean managed to finagle a slot on the bike tour, not an easy accomplishment given the short time before the popular event.
He hadn't mentioned anything earlier about cutting the evening short so I figured it was an excuse.
Unfortunately, the trip to dreamland was short in duration.
Dean lost his convoy of younger bikers on the short uphill and he paused momentarily at the crest to wipe his eyes and scan the roadway below him for his prey.
Dean didn't comment and a short silence followed.
A short stocky man in a white T-shirt and matching sneakers jabbed a hand at Alex.
Alex's laugh was short and humorless.
He ran a hand through short curly black hair that didn't need straightening.
Other than that, she was short and a little underweight.
The coffee cup paused short of his lips as he met her gaze.
As it was, he had to enlist the help of Princess in order to move it a short distance.
His laugh was short and strained.
He returned her kiss with equal passion, pulling away only when they both were short of breath.
His short laugh was more a snort.
Inside, he flipped on the light and covered her eyes, guiding her a short distance before removing his hands.
The sound of water running in her bathroom brought her up short.
His laugh was short.
When he came home tonight, she had been wearing blue jeans and a short blouse.
Both had been walking for a good four months, and they were already saying short sentences.
Alex was in short sleeves today, his brown muscular arms exposed to the warm sun.
One of his arms is deformed — short.
Jonathan slid off the swing and took a short cut through the house to the chicken coup.
Alex rejoined them a short time later, saying that everything was in order.
Their betrothal was short by White God standards, a matter of six days.
Her hair was short and curly, too, unlike the blond, blue-eyed father that'd all but raped Jenn on their mating night.
You will find yourself short on time, ikir.
There was a short silence, then the Other he addressed chuckled.
Jenn paced for a short time, until a vamp entered.
He moved through the trees, trying to see the palace that had been his for a short time at the other end.
He looked away and turned his back to her, stance guarded as he paced short distances back and forth, like a caged panther.
The Grey God existed for a very short time, and he was supposed to balance out the two worlds.
Jenn flipped to the string and read the short entry.
After a short search, she found a small cave and scaled the boulders in front of it.
Jenn ran a hand through her short hair.
The blast was short but sucked her magic and left her feeling as if her insides were on fire.
She'd cleaned up since he last saw her, and her short hair was still damp.
The attacker fell into the pit with an abruptly short scream.
He corrected one other movement and slowed their pace until it resembled that of the youths being trained a short distance away.
They rode for a short distance before she spoke again.
Taran grabbed her wrist and dragged her a short distance away from the party.
He kept his voice low, lethal, and stopped just short of their bodies touching.
She could not afford to sleep long after her misadventure in Corcoran so she let herself doze for a short time before seeking out Hilden with questions she should have asked long ago.
He heard Hilden pause a short distance ahead and stopped, sensing only two men in the massive chamber.
A small tent was erected a short distance from them.
Carmen was dressed in a short pink dress and white tights.
The session was mercifully short and they decided to go to check out the renovated house and make sure it was ready for the new renters.
At that point Jonathan came into the kitchen with Matthew holding on to one hand and Natalie clinging desperately to the hand on his short arm.
At five-nine, he seemed tall to her – probably because she was so short, but possibly because he was so well proportioned.
He was short, thin and if not homely, certainly not handsome.
He was searching her mind and coming up short again.
Dark specks in her eyes gave her a short warning and she glanced up at Alex, feeling the faint coming on.
At first she thought that wouldn't be possible on such short notice, but since the place specialized in barbeque and the need was small, they were able to fit them in.
His expression was barely short of pleading.
It was amazing how amiable two people could be when their time together was going to be short.
His curly brown hair stopped somewhere short of being unruly, but it was clean and clipped short.
Where could Dad have found him on such short notice?
She ducked under the water and swam a short distance before surfacing to make sure she wasn't close to any rocks.
This must be the reason the thick short candles were stored there.
So that was where her father had found someone so familiar with the wilderness on such short notice.
How a person dealt with that fear was the measure of their strength - and she was coming up short on the yardstick.
The sharp masculine voice cut their game short.
Only you came up a little short.
She withdrew, and Xander was shocked to feel the hunger gone after so short a drink.
Xander watched him for a short while before returning to the beach to finish his Tai Chi.
It worked, but it stopped a foot short of her floor, which made her load even more precarious.
She ran a hand through her short, dark hair.
If you need a short, fat date for something, call me.
You're not short or fat!
For some reason, the idea Eden was content after so short a time irritated him.
He walked them down the mall a short distance.
She has Watchers' blood, was the short reply.
The two exchanged some short communication before Jule tossed the bo to none other than Gerry.
Beyond where the compound ended, she saw the tan sands of the desert punctuated by short, round shrubs It's called Traveling.
Charles was a short distance away, alert.
Darian was armed with knives and a short sword for the hunt; Xander used nothing but his hands and fangs.
In 1502 Warham was consecrated bishop of London and became keeper of the great seal, but his tenure of both these offices was short, as in 1504 he became lord chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury.
It lies in the open valley of the Trent, at a short distance from the river, and near the important Trent Junction on the Midland railway system.
A short distance below the Felu Falls is the town of Kayes on the left bank of the river.
In 1714 he paid a short visit to Paris and ransacked the libraries.
The cruciform church of St Mary, with a central tower and short spire, is in great part Early English, with Perpendicular additions; but considerable traces of a Norman building were revealed during a modern restoration.
An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.
Wade was appointed to the post of collector in the first instance, and after a short tenure of office was succeeded by Mr II.
He had two bedsteads (according to some, only one), the one very long, the other very short.
When a stranger claimed his hospitality, Procrustes compelled him, if he was tall, to lie down on the short bed, and then cut off his extremities to make him fit.
If on the other hand he was short, he was placed on the long bedstead and his limbs pulled out until he died from exhaustion.
After a short stay first at Alen90n and then in Bourges, he passed over to England, where he found refuge in London with Ugo Foscolo, and made a few English friends.
Mastodons, like elephants, always have a pair of upper tusks, while the earlier ones likewise have a short pair in the lower jaw, which is prolonged into a snout-like symphysis for their support.
In the former the upper tusks are bent down so as to cross the tips of the short and chisel-like lower pair.
It consisted of a short skirted coat with rows of metal buttons, a tricoloured waistcoat and red cap, and became the popular dress of the Jacobins.
But we know that the pressure of the barbarians began to be felt seriously in the later part of the 2nd century, and after long struggles the whole or almost the whole district east of Rhine and north of Danube was lost - seemingly all within one short period - about A.D.
The material employed in all cases is the droppings of horses, which should be collected fresh, and spread out in thin layers in a dry place, a portion of the short litter being retained well moistened by horse-urine.
Like the mushroom, it grows in short open pastures and amongst the short grass of open roadsides; sometimes it appears on lawns, but it never occurs in woods or in damp shady places.
It is situated on Gala Water, within a short distance of its junction with the Tweed, 332 m.
In the summer of 1792 he was present for a short time with the army of the north, with his two sons, the duke of Chartres and the duke of Montpensier, but had returned to Paris before the 10th of August.
The understanding between Hastings and Francis, originating in this state of affairs, was for a short period extended to general policy.
For a short time he assisted Charles Osborne in editing the Philanthropist; in 1819 he went to St Louis, Missouri, and there in 1819-1820 took an active part in the slavery controversy; and in 1821 he founded at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, an anti-slavery paper, the Genius of Universal Emancipation.
The short screw whose divided milled head is shifts the zero of the micrometer by pushing, without turning, the short sliding rod whose flat end forms the point d'appui of the micrometer screw at I.
In England the story first appears in a short poem preserved among the Cotton MSS.
The winter is short, but exceedingly cold; snow remains on the Prokletia and other mountains till August, and sometimes throughout the year.
The costume of the Tosks differs from that of the Ghegs; its distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat, which has been adopted by the Greeks; the Ghegs wear trews of white or crimson native cloth adorned with black braid, and a short, close-fitting jacket, which in the case of wealthy persons is embellished with gold lace.
The hills are formed by a short, broad, anticlinal fold, which is flat or nearly so on its summit.
The book of Haggai contains four short prophecies delivered between the first day of the sixth month and the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month - that is, between September and December - of the second year of Darius the king.
A " Geyser " is a very convenient form of apparatus for heating a quantity of water in a short time.
The lime deposit or " fur " is a poor conductor of heat, and it is therefore most detrimental to the efficiency of the system to allow the interior of the boiler or any other portion to become furred up. Further, if not removed, the fur will in a short time bring about a fracture in the boiler.
The necessary inference is that his stay at the university was short, and that only the groundwork of his education was laid there.
Altro Park, on an island a short distance down the river, is a pleasure resort in summer.
Gradually Durham, Short horn, Hereford and other stock were introduced to improve the native breeds, with results so satisfactory that now herds of threequarters-bred cattle are to be found in all parts of the country.
He built a fort a short distance up the river Uruguay, and despatched one of his lieutenants, Juan Alvarez Ramon, with a separate party upon an expedition up stream.
The Portuguese were even worse offenders, for in 1680 they made a settlement on the north of the river Plate, right opposite to Buenos Aires, named Colonia, which with one or two short intervals, remained.
After some time spent in travel and a successful lecturing tour in Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen, and produced a series of novels and collections of short stories, which placed him in the front rank of Scandinavian novelists.
The so-called Celtic type, exemplified by individuals of rather less than average height, brown-haired and brachycephalic, is the fundamental element in the nation and peoples the region between the Seine and the Garonne; in southern France a different type, dolichocephalic, short and with black hair and eyes, predominates.
These prisons received all sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, the long-term convicts going to the bagnes (the great convict prisons at the arsenals of Rochefort, Brest and Toulon), while in 1851 transportation to penal colonies was adopted.
Dispensations, and also the one-year voluntariat, which had become a short cut for the so-called intellectual class to employment in the civil service rather than a means of training reserve officers, were abolished.
The cannon-bones are remarkably short and wide, and in this respect differ from those of all allied ruminants, except the Tibetan takin.
Fur short and closely applied to the skin.
The results areaa lack of water-supply and of water-power, the streams becoming mere torrents for a short period and perfectly dry for the rest of the year; lack of a sufficient supply of timber; the denudation of the soil on the hills, and, where the valleys below have insufficient drainage, the formation of swamps.
In consequence, in 1908, of 490,000 liable, some I 10,000 actually joined for full training and 24,000 of the new 2nd category for short training, which contrasts very forcibly with the feeble embodiments of i906 and 1907.
Westward two short but important roads led on each side of the Tiber to the great harbour at its mouth; while the coast of Latium was supplied with a coast road by Septimius Severus.
To the south-west the roads were short and of little importance.
Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year 1402.
After a short but eventful career, the influence of which was long effective, he lost his hold upon the citizens.
But DAzeglio was not equal to the situation, and he, too, resigned in November 1852; whereupon the king appointed Cavour prime minister, a position which with short intervals he held until his death.
On the 8th of August, in spite of the protests and threats of most of the powers, the Garibaldians began to cross the Straits, and in a short time 20,000 of them were on the mainland.
At Genoa, which was in the hands of the teppisti for a couple of days, three persons were killed and 50 wounded, including 14 policemen, and railway communications were interrupted for a short time.
It is difficult to indicate in a short space the most important sources of general Italian history.
Now for a short time the document leaves the great questions at issue between the king and the barons, and two chapters are devoted to protecting the people generally against the exactions of the Jews.
The perisarc when, present invests the hydrorhiza and hydrocaulus; it may stop short below the hydranth, or it may extend farther.
The polyp is regarded, on this view, as a form phylogenetically older than the medusa, in short, as nothing more than a sessile actinula.
Hydra must, in short, be a living representative of the ancestor of which the actinula-stage is a transient reminiscence in the development of higher forms. It may be pointed out in this connexion that the fixation of Hydra is only temporary, and that the animal is able at all times to detach itself, to move to a new situation, and to fix itself again.
They are liberated in a mature condition, and probably live but a short time, merely sufficient to spread the species.
The dactylozoids have no mouth; in Milleporidae they have short capitate tentacles, but lack tentacles in Stylasteridae.
Olindiadae, with four radial canals and four gonads; manubrium short; ring-canals giving off blind centripetal canals; tentaculocysts enclosed.
A visit to southern Italy, where many of the princes did homage to the emperor, was cut short by the death of the pope, to whose chair Otto then appointed his former tutor Gerbert, who took the name of Sylvester II.
The head is short and conical, the ears large, round and mostly bare, and the tail shorter than the body.
It has a broad rounded head, short face, large naked eyes, large hands, and long thin fingers with pointed claws, of which the third is remarkable for its extreme slenderness.
The fifth Nikaya is a miscellaneous collection of treatises, mostly very short, on a variety of subjects.
In the time of Irenaeus the fast before Easter was very short, but very severe; thus some ate nothing for forty hours between the afternoon of Good Friday and the morning of Easter.
This may have a radial stem-like organization, a central cell-thread giving off from every side a number of short sometimes unicellular branches, which together form a cortex round the central thread, the whole structure having a cylindrical form which only branches when one of the short cell-branches from the central thread grows out beyond the general surface and forms in its turn a new central thread, from whose cells arise new short branches.
Anything short of this is merely descriptive and empirical, and affords no rational basis for inquiry into the mode in which the distribution of plant-life has been brought about.
The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.
Flowing through the narrow valley between the Cordillera and coast range, it has only short tributaries, the principal ones being the Truando, Sucio and Murri.
Wakefield was for a short time at Westminster School, and was brought up to his father's profession, which he relinquished on occasion of his elopement at the age of twenty with Miss Pattle, the orphan daughter of an Indian civil servant.
The most anterior part of the ilium often overlaps one or more short lumbar ribs and fuses with them, or even a long, complete thoracic rib.
The first metacarpal is short and fuses throughout its length with the second.
The pubis consists of a short anterior portion (spina pubica or pectineai process, homologous with the prepubic process of Dinosaurs) and the long and slender pubis proper (equivalent to the processus lateralis pubis of most reptiles).
The shaft of the pubis runs parallel with that of the ischium, with which it is connected by a short ligamentous or bony bridge; this cuts off from the long incisura pubo-ischiadica a proximal portion, the foramen obturatum, for the passage of the obturator nerve.
The short feet of the penguins are an adaptation.
The eyeball, instead of being globular, resembles rather the tube of a short and thick opera-glass.
The aortic trunk is very short, sends off the coronary arteries and then the left aorta brachiocephalica, while the rest divides into the right brachiocephalic and the aorta descendens.
The upper, wide opening of the duct is attached by elastic, peritoneal lamellae to the hinder margin of the left lung; the middle portion of the duct is glandular and thick-walled, for the deposition of the albumen; it is connected by a short, constricted " isthmus " (where the shell-membrane is formed) with a dilated " uterus " in which the egg receives its calcareous shell and eventual pigmentation.
Here may be interpolated a short account of the very peculiar avifauna found in the Tertiary strata of Santa Cruz in Patagonia.
They express the main complexes of land with their dependencies in well-chosen terms; for instance the " Neotropical region " stands short for South and Central America with the Antilles.
Order Colymbiformes.-Plantigrade, nidifugous, aquatic. All toes webbed, fourth largest, hallux short; metatarsus laterally compressed; tibia with high, pyramidal crest.
Front toes completely webbed; hallux very short or absent; feed chiefly on small aquatic invertebrates.
But he felt that his real vocation was philosophy, and after holding for a short time an extraordinary professorship of theology, he became professor of philosophy in 1855.
Sir David Brewster modified his apparatus by moving the object-box and closing the end of the tube by a lens of short focus which forms images of distant objects at the distance of distinct vision.
Their writings, like those of the apostles, are epistolary; but editions of the apostolic fathers now usually admit also the early Church order known as the Didache, the allegory entitled the Shepherd, and a short anonymous apology addressed to one Diognetus.
It is said that in his earliest boyhood Andrea was, like Giotto, put to shepherding or cattle-herding; this is not likely, and can at any rate have lasted only a very short while, as his natural genius for art developed with singular precocity, and excited the attention of Francesco Squarcione, who entered him in the gild of painters before he had completed his eleventh year.
After this short ministry he represented his country with dignity and effect at the Hague peace congress, and in 1903 was nominated a member of the permanent court of arbitration.
The latter position he held for nearly forty-five years, with the exception of a short time spent at the university of Leiden, where his health was affected by the Dutch climate.