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  • Four months after publication The Dying Earth had sold two and a half billion hardfax copies, an abridged and digitalized version was available on the See Thing datasphere, and it had been optioned for the holies.†   (source)
  • The original novel is over four hundred pages long—no groaning, please, you are not cattle being led to slaughter—but you will be reading an abridgment.†   (source)
  • "As you can see," Trish said, scrolling through the heavily abridged page, "the document contains all of your key phrases."†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma, who had been put in charge of their formal education, had read them an abridged version of The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb.†   (source)
  • It contains the confessions of Grace Marks and James McDermott, as well as an abridged version of the trial.†   (source)
  • Somewhere deep in the Heart of Stone, I relaxed, glad that the master's irritation was based on Hemme's angrily abridged version of the truth.†   (source)
  • He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle.†   (source)
  • From the sworn testimony of Thomas K. Quillan, taken before The State Investigatory Board of Maine in connection with the events of May 27-28 in Chamberlain, Maine (abridged version which follows is from Black Prom: The White Commission Report, Signet Books: New York, 1980): Q. Mr. Quillan. are you a resident of Chamberlain?†   (source)
  • All abridging remarks and other comments will be in this fancy italic type so you'll know.†   (source)
  • The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans.†   (source)
  • He did psychoanalysis, personal reminiscence, he did voices and accents, grandmotherly groans, scenes from prison movies, and he finally closed the show with a monologue that had a kind of abridged syntax, a thing without connectives, he was cooking free-form, closer to music than speech, doing a spoken jazz in which a slang term generates a matching argot, like musicians trading fours, the road band, the sideman's inner riff, and when the crowd dispersed they took this rap mosaic with…†   (source)
  • "Or he'll be stuck publishing an abridged edition."†   (source)
  • So I told them the truth, albeit somewhat abridged.†   (source)
  • He changed lodgings, moving in with lawyer Putnam, and while con-tinuing his daytime duties at the Worcester schoolhouse, he read law at night moving fast (too fast, he later thought) through Wood's four-volume Institute of the Laws of England, Hawkins's Abridgment of Coke's Institutes, Salkeld's hefty Reports, Coke's Entries, and Hawkins's massive two-volume Pleas of the Crown in a single volume that weighed fully eight pounds.†   (source)
  • Abigail asked, interrupting her abridged version of the past summer's history.†   (source)
  • If the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court were confined to appeals from inferior federal courts instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, it would abridge the latitude of the terms in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.†   (source)
  • To show you the completely new thing it brought into the world in all its freshness-not as you know it and are used to it but more simply, more directly-I should like to go over a few extracts from the liturgy-only a very few, and abridged at that.†   (source)
  • Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged)   (source)
    abridged = shortened; or reduced in scope while retaining essential elements
  • A crack and a shudder, a bullet zinging off an old dismantled press, and in the upstairs apartment Frau Elena sits in her striped ski parka, an abridged New Testament zipped into the pocket, holding the hands of the girls and moving her lips in soundless prayer.   (source)
    abridged = shortened (version of the)
  • AN ABRIDGED ROLL CALL FOR 1942   (source)
    abridged = made shorter
  • In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged "whale" and a "narwhale."   (source)
    abridged = shortened
  • I took upon me, one Saturday noon (he was always worse on Saturdays), to hint to him, very kindly, that perhaps now that he was growing old, it might be well to abridge his labors;   (source)
    abridge = shorten or reduce
  • In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his former dignity is sadly abridged.   (source)
    abridged = reduced
  • "We have to read an abridgment, and it's still a hundred and sixty pages long."†   (source)
  • Well, I'm an abridger, so I'm entitled to a few ideas of my own.†   (source)
  • Tuesday was a little better, even though that morning in English we finally started reading Jane Eyre, by Miss Charlotte Bronte, which we were likely to be reading for a whole long time, since it was 160 pages long even in the abridgment, as you might remember.†   (source)
  • IT HAS NOT BEEN ABRIDGED OR EDITED.†   (source)
  • TRACK TRANSCRIPT CONTD SCOOP VII THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN 167 LAUNCHDATE:-


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    Bahama Station.†   (source)
  • If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go around sticking your own in.†   (source)
  • My father read it to me, and I just quick skimmed along, crossing out whole sections when I did the abridging, leaving everything just as it was in the original Morgenstern.†   (source)
  • She didn't abridge much in stories like the one about Isaac sporting with Rebecca in Abimelech's gardens, or the rape of Dinah by Shechem.†   (source)
  • Well, I have a temp," Hans Castorp said, borrowing Frau Stohr's abridged form of the word.†   (source)
  • I abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying.†   (source)
  • I abridge nothing I have ever bestowed upon her.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged.†   (source)
  • "In Heaven's name," said he, "to what purpose serve these abridged cloaks?†   (source)
  • All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms also.†   (source)
  • Tess wished to abridge her visit as much as possible; but the young man was pressing, and she consented to accompany him.†   (source)
  • Mynheer had presided over only one evening of eating and drinking in the previous week, and their walks together had likewise been limited to one abridged stroll.†   (source)
  • She was perfectly pleasant and sensible over Lucy's adventure, found the abridged account of it quite adequate, and paid suitable tribute to the courtesy of Mr. George Emerson.†   (source)
  • Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness.†   (source)
  • Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.†   (source)
  • Ah! in that case I must abridge.†   (source)
  • But M. de Treville promised this favor after a novitiate of two years—a novitiate which might besides be abridged if an opportunity should present itself for d'Artagnan to render the king any signal service, or to distinguish himself by some brilliant action.†   (source)
  • …were the two brothers so like each other in the midst of their unlikeness: Adam with knit brows, shaggy hair, and dark vigorous colour, absorbed in his "figuring"; Seth, with large rugged features, the close copy of his brother's, but with thin, wavy, brown hair and blue dreamy eyes, as often as not looking vaguely out of the window instead of at his book, although it was a newly bought book—Wesley's abridgment of Madame Guyon's life, which was full of wonder and interest for him.†   (source)
  • The result of to-day, which haunts the mind and cannot be escaped will presently be abridged into a word, and the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.†   (source)
  • To which was soon afterwards added the 15th article, "The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous servitude."†   (source)
  • He prefers talking about the characteristics of race, the physical conformation of the country, or the genius of civilization, which abridges his own labors, and satisfies his reader far better at less cost.†   (source)
  • "Friend hunter, or trapper," returned the naturalist, clearing his throat in some intellectual confusion at the vigorous attack of his companion, "your deductions, if admitted by the world, would sadly circumscribe the efforts of reason, and much abridge the boundaries of knowledge."†   (source)
  • Here Mr. Vain der School favored the jury with an abridgment of the testimony, recounted in such a manner as utterly to confuse the faculties of his worthy listeners.†   (source)
  • * * * "I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an underground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.†   (source)
  • *j [Footnote i: It is perfectly clear, says Mr. Story ("Commentaries," p.503, or in the large edition Section 1379), that any law which enlarges, abridges, or in any manner changes the intention of the parties, resulting from the stipulations in the contract, necessarily impairs it.†   (source)
  • The wounded man sank upon his knees, to again kiss the feet of his preserver; but d'Artagnan, who had no longer a motive for staying so near the enemy, abridged the testimonials of his gratitude.†   (source)
  • It is true they attach great importance to procuring for themselves that sort of deep, regular, and quiet affection which constitutes the charm and safeguard of life, but they are not apt to run after those violent and capricious sources of excitement which disturb and abridge it.†   (source)
  • No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.†   (source)
  • Her long dishevelled grey hair flew back from her uncovered head; the inebriating delight of gratified vengeance contended in her eyes with the fire of insanity; and she brandished the distaff which she held in her hand, as if she had been one of the Fatal Sisters, who spin and abridge the thread of human life.†   (source)
  • …attached to Oriental literature, equal to that produced by Mr Galland's first translation of the Arabian Tales; in which, retaining on the one hand the splendour of Eastern costume, and on the other the wildness of Eastern fiction, he mixed these with just so much ordinary feeling and expression, as rendered them interesting and intelligible, while he abridged the long-winded narratives, curtailed the monotonous reflections, and rejected the endless repetitions of the Arabian original.†   (source)
  • The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, after all, who will have their turn later on.†   (source)
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude.†   (source)
  • …to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution Article I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.†   (source)
  • Let us abridge the tale.†   (source)
  • …in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in…†   (source)
  • It was merely a trifle abridged.†   (source)
  • Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a flower; Fameuil idolized Zephine, an abridgment of Josephine; Tholomyes had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair.†   (source)
  • And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.†   (source)
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.†   (source)
  • No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.†   (source)
  • — Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?†   (source)
  • The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.†   (source)
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude— Section 2.†   (source)
  • Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.†   (source)
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.†   (source)
  • …in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in…†   (source)
  • Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!   (source)
    abridge = shorten
  • The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look where my abridgment comes.   (source)
    abridgment = cut off (ending or cutting short the talk)
  • So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death.   (source)
    abridged = shortened
  • And, for he would his longe tale abridge,   (source)
    abridge = shorten; or reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
  • thy staying will abridge thy life.   (source)
    abridge = shorten
  • The unabridged biography of the designer, Toru Iwatani.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabridged means not and reversed the meaning of abridged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Unabridged biographies on each band member, along with copies of their side projects and solo work.†   (source)
  • At supper, Douglas sat on an unabridged dictionary Red had placed on a chair.†   (source)
  • I spent my whole life thinking it ended that way, up until I did this abridgement.†   (source)
  • They're things like compressed archives of millions of e-mails, giant unabridged encyclopedia sets, global message boards that have been running for years, and so forth.†   (source)
  • By order of Azaz the Unabridged—†   (source)
  • In war, the terror, the compression of eschatological questions, the abridgement of the laws of man, the lack of sense in it, the confusion, the entropy….†   (source)
  • Once placed, the smee stretched, flipped onto his tummy, and launched into an unabridged recitation of his many adventures, intrigues, and scandals.†   (source)
  • It does not recognize, for example, the word prescriptivist, which is used frequently in this book, and which has appeared in the unabridged Random House Dictionary at least since 1983.†   (source)
  • "fin famished—f-a-m-i— s —h-e-d." As Milo tried to think, there was an ear-shattering blast of trumpets, entirely off key-, and a page announced to the startled guests: "KING AZAZ THE UNABRIDGED."†   (source)
  • The Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines "to settle" as "to place in a desired state or order; to quiet, calm, or bring to rest; to make stable.†   (source)
  • Looking it up, we found that Fowler's Modern English Usage says the word gerundive has "no proper function in English grammar," but the Random House Unabridged Dictionary finds one: a gerund is a noun derived from a verb form—for instance, walking, as in walking is good for you.†   (source)
  • The sin is in the abruptness, in the abridgement of those stages that otherwise might be joined so brilliantly to make a life.†   (source)
  • One son went south and became Azaz the Unabridged, king of Dictionopolis, and the other went north and became the Mathemagician, ruler of Digitopolis; and, true to their words, they both provided well for the little girls, who continued to live in Wisdom.†   (source)
  • My reply to her— This is me, and I'm not trying to be confusing, but the above paragraph that I'm cutting into now is verbatim Morgenstern; he was continually referring to his wife in the unabridged book, saying that she loved the next section or she thought that, all in all, the book was extraordinarily brilliant.†   (source)
  • Here to help us grow up arguing around the diningroom table were the Unabridged Webster, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, the Lincoln Library of Information, and later the Book of Knowledge.†   (source)
  • But for the most part this is a long, solemn and tedious Pacific voyage best suited, I would think, to some kind of drastic abridgement in a journal like the National Geographic.†   (source)
  • Yet Horace Walpole wrote a goblin tale which has thrilled through many a bosom; and George Ellis could transfer all the playful fascination of a humour, as delightful as it was uncommon, into his Abridgement of the Ancient Metrical Romances.†   (source)
  • To this determination she was the more easily reconciled, by recollecting that Edward Ferrars, by Lucy's account, was not to be in town before February; and that their visit, without any unreasonable abridgement, might be previously finished.†   (source)
  • A murmur of approval arose from all and some were for ejecting the low soaker without more ado, a design which would have been effected nor would he have received more than his bare deserts had he not abridged his transgression by affirming with a horrid imprecation (for he swore a round hand) that he was as good a son of the true fold as ever drew breath.†   (source)
  • THESEUS Say, what abridgment have you for this evening?†   (source)
  • But the Right of Nature, that is, the naturall Liberty of man, may by the Civill Law be abridged, and restrained: nay, the end of making Lawes, is no other, but such Restraint; without the which there cannot possibly be any Peace.†   (source)
  • In a word, I gave him an abridgment of this whole history; I gave him a picture of my conduct for fifty years in miniature.†   (source)
  • Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.†   (source)
  • Be not then so sparing of your purses, honourable gentlemen, as to abridge the natural course of life— PER: You see his end.†   (source)
  • "—"I command you to tell me immediately," says Thwackum: "and I would not have you imagine, young man, that your age, though it hath somewhat abridged the purpose of tuition, hath totally taken away the authority of the master.†   (source)
  • And when this old man weened [thought, intended] to enforce his tale by reasons, well-nigh all at once began they to rise for to break his tale, and bid him full oft his words abridge.†   (source)
  • To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured.†   (source)
  • The specification of an obligation to try all criminal causes in a particular mode, excludes indeed the obligation or necessity of employing the same mode in civil causes, but does not abridge THE POWER of the legislature to exercise that mode if it should be thought proper.†   (source)
  • His friendes sent he to, at his instance, And prayed them to do him that pleasance, That hastily they would unto him come; He would abridge their labour all and some: Needed no more for them to go nor ride,<7> *He was appointed where he would abide.†   (source)
  • …love, Great was th' effect, and high was his intent; Well wist he why, and what thereof he meant: For with that faire chain of love he bond* *bound The fire, the air, the water, and the lond In certain bondes, that they may not flee:<91> That same prince and mover eke," quoth he, "Hath stablish'd, in this wretched world adown, Certain of dayes and duration To all that are engender'd in this place, Over the whiche day they may not pace*, *pass All may they yet their dayes well abridge.†   (source)
  • And making this concession, I affirm that (with the sole exception of duties on imports and exports) they would, under the plan of the convention, retain that authority in the most absolute and unqualified sense; and that an attempt on the part of the national government to abridge them in the exercise of it, would be a violent assumption of power, unwarranted by any article or clause of its Constitution.†   (source)
  • It will be safe to the United States, because, being fixed by the State constitutions, it is not alterable by the State governments, and it cannot be feared that the people of the States will alter this part of their constitutions in such a manner as to abridge the rights secured to them by the federal Constitution.†   (source)
  • To confine, therefore, the general expressions giving appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, to appeals from the subordinate federal courts, instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, would be to abridge the latitude of the terms, in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.†   (source)
  • This consideration has the more weight, as the gradual accumulation of public improvements at the stationary residence of the government would be both too great a public pledge to be left in the hands of a single State, and would create so many obstacles to a removal of the government, as still further to abridge its necessary independence.†   (source)
  • It cannot certainly be pretended that any degree of duties, however low, would be an abridgment of the liberty of the press.†   (source)
  • This discretion, in regard to criminal causes, is abridged by the express injunction of trial by jury in all such cases; but it is, of course, left at large in relation to civil causes, there being a total silence on this head.†   (source)
  • It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince.†   (source)
  • For my part, I acknowledge myself to be convinced that even in this State it might be advantageously extended to some cases to which it does not at present apply, and might as advantageously be abridged in others.†   (source)
  • I have thought it proper to quote at length these interesting passages, because they contain a luminous abridgment of the principal arguments in favor of the Union, and must effectually remove the false impressions which a misapplication of other parts of the work was calculated to make.†   (source)
  • In this situation, military establishments, nourished by mutual jealousy, would be apt to swell beyond their natural or proper size; and being at the separate disposal of the members, they would be engines for the abridgment or demolition of the national authority.†   (source)
  • The real scarcity of objects in this country, which may be considered as productive sources of revenue, is a reason peculiar to itself, for not abridging the discretion of the national councils in this respect.†   (source)
  • Had the nobles, by a conduct of clemency and justice, preserved the fidelity and devotion of their retainers and followers, the contests between them and the prince must almost always have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority.†   (source)
  • It is not equally evident in relation to cases which may grow out of, and be PECULIAR to, the Constitution to be established; for not to allow the State courts a right of jurisdiction in such cases, can hardly be considered as the abridgment of a pre-existing authority.†   (source)
  • Hence would result an exclusive power in the Union to lay duties on imports and exports, with the particular exception mentioned; but this power is abridged by another clause, which declares that no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State; in consequence of which qualification, it now only extends to the DUTIES ON IMPORTS.†   (source)
  • …/to calculate/, /to expect/ (/to think/ or /believe/), /to guess/, /to reckon/. i. "Certain adjectives, expressing not only quality, but one's subjective feelings in regard to it," as /clever/, /grand/, /green/, /likely/, /smart/, /ugly/. j. Abridgments, as /stage/ (for /stage-coach/), /turnpike/ (for /turnpike-road/), /spry/ (for /sprightly/), /to conduct/ (for /to conduct one's self/). k. "Quaint or burlesque terms," as to /tote/, /to yank/; /humbug/, /loafer/, /muss/, /plunder/ (for…†   (source)
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