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Updated: May 29, 2025
The causes of shrinkage in population are the opposites of those which we have found to promote its increase. The production of food may be diminished by the exhaustion of the soil, or by the progressive aridity caused by cutting down woods.
He made out a check for the total fifteen thousand at once to the Girard National Bank to cover a shrinkage there. So it went. During all these days young Cowperwood was following these financial complications with interest.
This performance was simply suggestive; but it was a word to the wise it was vivid and pretty. Nothing made her more angry: it was so much her pride to feel she could sit for characters that had nothing in common with each other. She would accuse me at such moments of taking away her "reputytion." It suffered a certain shrinkage, this queer quantity, from the repeated visits of my new friends.
Want of skill, the fitfulness of the small holder, aggravated perhaps by national calamities, drought, flood, and pestilence, being felt more severely by laborers than by capitalists, led to a gradual shrinkage in the area of cultivated land, and at last to the suffering of the classes who were to specially benefit from the scheme of Wanganchi.
In order to make these articles of good quality, it is of the first importance that all stock in them shall be well seasoned, for if it is not, changes of temperature will produce shrinkage and warping. The wood should be either kiln-dried a novelty then or dried by long keeping in sheds, and it was important to buy largely when there was a good source, and store for future use.
And if she did not speak of love with her lips, she had eyes. . . . The gradual shrinkage of values to the vanishing point imposed upon Dave many business duties which he would very gladly have evaded.
"By repeating the latter process many times, a gradual and symmetrical shrinkage was produced until the head had dwindled to the size of a man's fist or even smaller, leaving the features, however, practically unaltered.
Leaves, herbs, and flowers should never be washed. It is important also to collect in proper season only, as drugs collected out of season are unmarketable on account of inferior medicinal qualities, and there will also be a greater shrinkage in a root dug during the growing season than when it is collected after growth has ceased.
If there had been no labour organisation whatever when the arable agriculturist began to suffer, as he undoubtedly has been suffering, the labourer must have felt it in his turn. He has himself to blame if he has made the pain more acute. He finds it in this way. Throughout the corn-producing district there has been proceeding a gradual shrinkage, as it were, of speculative investment.
"The Wilcox kittens aren't dead, for they weren't born; nobody's broken a leg; there's no shrinkage in mother-in-laws; nothing has happened it is an insolvable mystery." There was another puzzled man, too the Rev. Mr. Burgess.
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