..., ground, space, (limited) area; land, field; way, distance; cortar —, to make a short cut; to shorten the way (or distance)... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...Doctor say whathe will) is the way to shorten my life, and not to lengthen it...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...Stanley time to get toZanzibar, and to shorten by any means at hand the anxious period whichmust elapse before evidence can arrive that he has carried out thecommission entrusted to him...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...” We stood on with all canvas set; the hands at their stations ready to shorten sail when necessary...
W. H. G. Kingston 「The African Trader」
...A law of the Muscovites obliged thepeople to crop their beards and shorten their clothes...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906」
... shorten the season...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...This making the journey much farther, we concluded to go by wagon the entire distance, which would shorten the distance nearly one-half...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
..." The two muscular columns contract and relax, shorten andlengthen...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Their failure or omissionto hold the south-west weakened the left flank and rear of theirposition on the Wall of Pius and helped materially to shorten theirdominion in Scotland in the second century...
F. Haverfield 「Roman Britain in 1914」
...Tin is often added to the hot bath for the purpose of obtaining asmoother surface and larger facets, but it is found to shorten thelife of the protective coating very considerably...
William N. Brown 「Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition」
... There were a thousand pathetic protests, but I couldn’t shorten up any, for I couldn’t remember how long a total eclipse lasts...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
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