The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendon; the contraction produced by cold.
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"Contraction" Quotes from Famous Books — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various — Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens — Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce — Italian Hours • Henry James — Broken Bread - from an Evangelist's Wallet • Thomas Champness |
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