"Abbreviated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dismounted, and made his way on foot to the summit of the ridge. Removing his hat, he thrust his head through a narrow opening between two sage bushes, and peered into the hollow beyond. Beside a little fire sat Bat and the pilgrim, the latter arrayed in a suit of underwear much abbreviated as to arms and legs, while from the branches of a broken tree-top drawn close beside the blaze depended a pair of mud-caked trousers and a disreputably dirty silk shirt. The Texan picked his way down the hill, slipping and sliding ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... half the night; still I wanted more sunshine, more air, the hours were too short. I feel this even more now than in the violence of early youth: the hours are too short, the day should be sixty hours long. Slumber, too, is abbreviated and restricted; forty hours of night and sleep would not be too much. So little can be accomplished in the longest summer day, so little rest and new force is accumulated in a short ...
— The Story of My Heart • Richard Jefferies
... desinit formosus superne,—there is something highly remarkable a continuacion. Do you see that blanket which is drawn tightly up, fore and aft, toward his waist, and, there confined by means of a belt which his querida has richly ornamented for him, falls over in uneven folds like an abbreviated kilt? That is the famous chiripa, or Gaucho petticoat, which, like the bracae of the Northern barbarians some nineteen hundred years ago, distinguishes him from the inhabitants of civilized communities. Below the chiripa, his limbs are cased in calzoncillos, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various
... too long, and has abbreviated it to Gypsy. Mrs. Garston was terribly shocked at first, but I told her that it did not matter in the least: in fact, I ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... and a middle-aged man named Carpenter, abbreviated to Carp, wheeled his horse from the group and headed ...
— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts
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