"Shortened" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arms hung on the holy door. There hung the axes crooked-horned, and taken wains of war, And crested helms, and bolts and locks that city-gates had borne; And spears and shields, and thrusting-beaks from ships of battle torn. There with Quirinus' crooked staff, girt in the shortened gown, With target in his left hand held, was Picus set adown,— The horse-tamer, whom Circe fair, caught with desire erewhile, Smote with that golden rod of hers, and, sprinkling venom's guile, 190 Made him a fowl, and colours fair ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... to sit well down on the saddle, then pass the right leg over the upstanding pommel, and let it hang straight down,—a little back, if leaping; if the foot pokes out, the lady has no firm hold. The stirrup must then be shortened, so as to bring the bent thigh next to the knee of the left leg firmly against the under side of the hunting-horn pommel. If, when this is done, an imaginary line were drawn from the rider's backbone, which would ...
— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey
... that they would be gone by before I could make any signal to them: but after I had crowded to the utmost, and began to despair, they, it seems, saw by the help of their glasses that it was some European boat, which they supposed must belong to some ship that was lost; so they shortened sail to let me come up. I was encouraged with this, and as I had my patron's ancient on board, I made a waft of it to them, for a signal of distress, and fired a gun, both which they saw; for they ...
— Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe
... breast of the Spaniard, Tarfe drew his dagger and brandished it above his throat. Terror filled the Christian ranks; a shout of triumph rose from those of the Moors. But suddenly Tarfe was seen to loosen his grasp and roll over in the dust. Garcilasso had shortened his sword and, as Tarfe raised his arm, had struck ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris
... his own; he had followed in no other person's footsteps; he had crossed the true centre, and he had made the coast at a point much further to the north than that reached by Burke and Wills, their journey having been considerably shortened by its northern end being placed on the southern shore of the great gulf that bites so deeply into north Australia. Along Stuart's track there is now erected the Overland Telegraph Line, an enduring monument ...
— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc
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