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Usage examples of shorter.

Tyrone accommodated her shorter height by bending his knees, and for a moment their eyes melded in warm communications.

Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.

Terry Bisson pubiished three novels, including Fire on the Mountain and Talking Man, before he tried his hand at shorter forms around the end of the 1980s.

The man was young, not more than twenty local years, and, although no taller than Longway, was of slight build, and stood with a stoop which made him seem shorter than he was.

The connection of the laterals with the mains, the laying of the larger sizes of tiles so as to form a close joint, the wedging of these larger tiles firmly into their places, and the trimming which is necessary in going around sharp curves, and in putting in the shorter pieces which are needed to fill out the exact length of the drain, demand more skill and judgment than are often found in the common ditcher.

In the kay-wide circular space that appeared to be Merthe, there were none of the monolithic forest giants, but only a scattering of shorter trees, most set right against the low houses.

He wore not one but two deadly misericords on the right side of his sword belt, with another, shorter dagger at his waist.

Then I realized that was no good -- like Uncle Martin in his manic-poet period trying to outwrite Shakespeare -- so I decided that my message would just be shorter.

The next patroller was squat, even shorter than Cerryl, but twice as broad, and his hair was jet-black, his eyes equally black.

The closer the pinging object gets to own ship, the shorter the interval between pings.

He bent carefully to his equipment sling, replaced the used piton, and took up a shorter one.

The shorter piton went to its eye in five hammer strokes and he could do nothing to dislodge it.

They were considerably shorter than the plainsman, whose height seemed to intimidate them.

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Pontifex Maximus had not prodded the College of Pontifices he headed to do their duty and keep the shorter calendar year in time with the seasons.

In this tree-toad there is a long black lateral line running posteriorly from the tympanum and above it a shorter line just as in the drawings.