...” The captain ordered all hands to remain on deck at their stations, ready to shorten sail at a moment’s notice... 
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...” 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」
...This afternoon all hands were called to shorten sail, in those earnest, startling tones, which are prompted by the sense of danger alone...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...To prevent the tendency to contract in thelimb, and consequently to shorten, is one of the chief difficulties whichwe have to contend with in the treatment of fractures...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...And he was not minded to shorten the period of fear byripping off his own outer garments with any melodramatic haste...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
..." The two muscular columns contract and relax, shorten andlengthen...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The duration of the lifeless posture varies greatly on the same day,under the same atmospheric conditions and with the same subject,though I cannot fathom the causes which shorten or lengthen it...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...To shorten the preparations, because of the distance, I do not mark them while they are on the nests; I shall mark them at the starting-point, as I release them...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
... Let us try if sand will shorten the struggle, for I see no end to it yet, after more than an hour of waiting...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...They lengthen by unrolling their twist, they shorten by rolling itagain; lastly, they become adhesive by taking the glaze of the gummymoisture wherewith they are filled...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...A little tow,pushed in any interstices which maybe left between the stitches,will soon rectify this, and also help to shorten the fish, which,in a first attempt, is almost sure to be made too long...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...“And shorten it into ‘chick’...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
...The savage Besisisof the Malay Peninsula fear to bury their dead at noon, becausethey fancy that the shortness of their shadows at that hour wouldsympathetically shorten their own lives...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... 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」
...She had killed only one fish, and came in to repair and shorten her main-mast...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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