What science teaches is made useless by the shortness of human existence; it absorbs all our energy in building up a machine which we shall have no time to work.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
This makes the latter group, which for shortness will be called that of the monosyllabic nations or tribes-a section, or division, of the former.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
She had realized, newly, the shortness of the time.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens