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short-winded
short-winded, a. [f. short a. + wind n. + -ed1.] a. Short of breath; suffering from or liable to difficulty of breathing; that soon becomes out of breath with any exertion.c 1450 Merlin xv. 245 And whan thei saugh the saisnes well chased and short wynded, thei lete renne at hem. c 1593 Jane in Haklu...
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short-winded
short-windedadj easily getting breathless after exerting oneself, running, etc (用力、 跑步等後就)容易气喘的.
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Maeve Brennan
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Brennan's writing style in her "Long-Winded Lady" pieces and in her short stories are quite different both in style and content. Stories (2000)
The Visitor (2000)
Non fiction
The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker (1969)
The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker
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What are "abortive sorrows" and "short-winded elations" in "The Great Gatsby"? From chapter 1 of _The Great Gatsby_ : > No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated...
"Abortive" means "failing to produce results," so it denotes a sorrow, probably short-lived, that doesn't cause the person to change.
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Human Chain (poetry collection)
Poet William Logan, in his review for The New York Times Book Review, wrote "'Human Chain' is far from Heaney's best book — the short and short-winded
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short-breathed
short-breathed, a. (ˌʃɔːtˈbrɛθt) [f. short a. + breath n. + -ed2.] Short of breath; suffering from difficulty of breathing, dyspnœic.1470–85 Malory Arthur viii. xxxix. 333 Sir Lamorak was so sore brysed and shorte brethed that he tracyd and trauercyd somwhat abak. 1620 Venner Via Recta vi. (1650) 10...
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Pussy
as persons of this make labor in respiration, the word is used for short breathed". In the Northern English variant of British English, the dialect form pursy, now rare or obsolete, means "fat" or "short-winded".
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The Reluctant Dragon (short story)
A New York Times review by Emily Jenkins notes that this framework is somewhat long-winded and might cause some parents to worry about whether the story Spoken version of "The Reluctant Dragon" at Project Gutenberg
1898 short stories
Books about dragons
Children's short stories
Hills of Berkshire
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winded
▪ I. winded, a. (ˈwɪndɪd) [f. wind n.1 + -ed2.] Having wind, i.e. (usually) breath, of a specified kind or in a specified condition: chiefly in parasynthetic combinations, as broken-winded, long-winded, short-winded; also † calm-winded = in which the wind, i.e. the air, is calm.c 1440 Pallad. on Hus...
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Nutbourne Windmill
It had a short working life, stopping c.1894. The mill gradually became derelict, although the cap was still on the mill during the Second World War. The mill had a beehive cap, winded by a fantail and is thought to have had four Spring sails. The mill drove two pairs of underdrift millstones.
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Clayton Windmills
It was winded by hand and had two pairs of millstones. The site is now Belmont—a short street of Grade II-listed villas.
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anhelous
† anˈhelous, a. Obs. [f. L. anhēl-us panting, puffing + -ous; cf. Fr. anhéleux.] Short of breath, short-winded, panting.1661 S. Stone Deceiv. Deceiv'd 12 Rude anhelous pantings, and interrupt breathings at Devotion. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 182 Anhelous or Short-breathed Fevers have their ...
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Pakenham Windmill
It has a domed cap with a gallery and is winded by a fantail. Two of the three pairs of millstones remain. Culture and media
Pakenham windmill appeared in the short film And now they rest released in 1938.
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Sylvia (Focus song)
Aside from Thijs van Leer's short section of falsetto vocalising, the song is instrumental. It had the long winded title "I Thought I Could Do Everything On My Own, I Was Always Stripping The Town Alone" but when he played the song for Sylvia,
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Finite double sum: Improve index transformation In order to prove a rather complicated binomial identity a small part of it implies a transformation of a double sum. > The double sum and its transformation have the f...
Perhaps the simplest argument is geometric. A sketch makes it evident that if $c\le\ell$, the lefthand side is the number of points of $\Bbb N\times\Bbb N$ lying in the convex hull of the points $\langle 0,1\rangle$, $\langle 0,c\rangle$, $\langle 1,1\rangle$, $\langle \ell-c,\ell\rangle$, and $\lan...
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