| 1. | But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more abbreviate it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | Helped out by questions from Sir James, he gave an abbreviated account of his adventures. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | His name thus abbreviated is, there can be no doubt, Grimani. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 4. | 'nebour' 'neigh' abbreviated 'ne.' This is abhominable- which h. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |