shortwinded

The appeal of the planters to the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury and the reply thereto are signs that the South is "shortwinded" in this respect.

London, Saturday, November30, 1861 1861

Paired imitation, the use of two voices moving in parallel, and textural contrast achieved by abrupt changes from polyphony to homophony support the impression of a shortwinded layout.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

Already on the second page he made a deft, poetic substitution, changing "the abortive sorrows and unjustified elations of men" to "the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men" – I like the echo of abortive sorrows in shortwinded, and how that brief flutter of air does its sorry best to lift elations.

Discovering a Lesser Gatsby, Perfection's Rough Draft 2000

It is a small herb, somewhat nearly of the colour of Garden Rue, and is likewise good for them that have a cough, or are shortwinded, or be troubled with stitches in the sides.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The world wags in spite of its schools and its families because both schools and families are mostly very largely anarchic: parents and schoolmasters are good-natured or weak or lazy; and children are docile and affectionate and very shortwinded in their fits of naughtiness; and so most families slummock along and muddle through until the children cease to be children.

Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

The older of the two was the doctor, a fat, shortwinded gentleman, dressed, notwithstanding the heat of the season, all in woollen cloth.

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832

We are creatures bounding from each other’s shoulders, feeling already the feet of new creatures upon our backs bounding again toward an invisible and illusory trapeze at present played by the shortwinded Saroyans.200 If the calf no longer flexes the bound will not be so high.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

We are creatures bounding from each other’s shoulders, feeling already the feet of new creatures upon our backs bounding again toward an invisible and illusory trapeze at present played by the shortwinded Saroyans.200 If the calf no longer flexes the bound will not be so high.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

Description: That Fitzsimmons was a fifth infielder on defense belied the pitcher’s physical characteristics, which were more closely related to those of a hod-carrier or, athletically speaking, more like the circumferential dimensions of a shortwinded entry in a Fat Men’s Bowling League.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Description: That Fitzsimmons was a fifth infielder on defense belied the pitcher’s physical characteristics, which were more closely related to those of a hod-carrier or, athletically speaking, more like the circumferential dimensions of a shortwinded entry in a Fat Men’s Bowling League.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004