1 'I authorize you to take all the risks,' he said, after a short silence.
2 'The chief of the Inner Station, he answered in a short tone, looking away.
3 The fusillade below stopped short, as I had foreseen it would when the squirts got empty.
4 Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails.
5 Several exchanged short, grunting phrases, which seemed to settle the matter to their satisfaction.
6 It was cut short all at once, and the low droning went on with an effect of audible and soothing silence.
7 'I refuse to take any,' I said shortly; which was just the answer he expected, though its tone might have surprised him.
8 I went forward, and ordered the chain to be hauled in short, so as to be ready to trip the anchor and move the steamboat at once if necessary.
9 He carried his fat paunch with ostentation on his short legs, and during the time his gang infested the station spoke to no one but his nephew.
10 We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
11 I heard a light sigh, and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain.
12 When I woke up shortly after midnight his warning came to my mind with its hint of danger that seemed, in the starred darkness, real enough to make me get up for the purpose of having a look round.
13 It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence.