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What's worse, though, is the fact that the major manufacturers shortened their warranty periods last fall to just one year.
It was hard work but glorious, his excitement rising to fever pitch as the tunnel shortened.
The shortened course didn't feature the dreaded water jump, but it did have two elements from the triple combination.
Compact guns are the rage right now, and generally that means both barrel and grip are shortened.
While he shortened the distance between them, Dimitri realized Reana had been quietly sitting and sharpening her sword with a whetstone.
Her style is to take the vibrato from the traditional school and the shortened note values from the HIP aesthetic.
Generally, all spices except fenugreek and mustard shortened the food transit time.
He hung a lamp on the mast and shortened the sail, but it was past midnight when Setisia retired to the cabin.
For safety's sake, use an emery cloth to sand the cut edges of your newly shortened rake.
The tail is shortened and fused to form a pygostyle which bears tail feathers.
Quin refastened the chains, scooted Drake closer to the wall, and shortened them just enough to limit the man's range of motion.
The lower lateral cartilages become shortened at the medial crura and elongated and displaced in the lateral crura.
Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher.
Nathan first played at six, Gail at four, her mother lobbing shuttles at her as she wielded a specially shortened racket.
Is it possible that the gods ate ham, egg and chips and shortened the name to ambrosia?
These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon.
To set the correct toe-out, the track rod has to be removed and shortened or lengthened.
The shortened, Latinised version of his name became Sancte Claus, which led to the obvious name of Santa Claus.
The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships still went by the Cape.
The Scots word 'laird' is a shortened form of 'laverd', an older Scots word deriving from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning lord.
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The red sweater with the terrycloth border and the white pants with a shortened left leg were a dead giveaway.
The modern flag, known as the burgee, largely used in flag signalling, is like a shortened pennon.
It is really a condensation of the facts, as the trail is shortened where uninteresting.
In the snake the CONUS arteriosus is very much shortened and is not visible.
Clauses of time are sometimes shortened by the omission of the copula and its subject.
But it is possible that Joy itself is not the abstract noun, but a shortened form of Julian.
A greatly overgrown hoof may be quickly shortened with sharp nippers and the sole freed of semidetached flakes of horn.
The girl shortened the stems of the roses and put them in a vase on Katy's dresser.
The close of the eighteenth century shortened the one as much as the other.
They've got as many virtues as any Englisher that ever snivelled prayer and shortened yardstick.
It only wants the sleeves shortened and some lace put in, and the neck turned down to make it lower, and then a fichu put round.
The muzzle more or less shortened, the frontal sinus enlarged, and the cranium elevated and diminished in capacity.
Gather up the amount to be shortened, then make a half hitch round each of the bends as shown in the diagram.
He turned to Jack and gave explicit directions as to how the route to malamute might be shortened profitably.
If the waste strands, untapered, be spliced in and in very frequently, the string will be somewhat shortened.
When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened.
The name was shortened into an-Iubharach, whence the transition was easy to newry.
The fourth or mute degree may be seen in such a word as wondrous, shortened from wonderous.
The flexors of the toes, the tibialis posterior, and the peroneus longus are shortened to a less degree.
It may be seen that in Bombycilla and in phainopepla, the tracts are much shortened.
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