shorter

He saw he was due to bleed to death and he took a shorter way!

But Felicien had gone a shorter way through the brambles and brushwood.

That's the shorter way—promptitude is my rule in life, Mr. Morton.

The letter could not well be shorter, nor, all things considered, colder.

In summer, meat will roast in a shorter time than in winter.

These he seemed to pinch off so that they were all of a size but one, which was shorter.

It was retained for a shorter time; they appeared to be less proud of it.

For a dog to attack another, it would have to turn upon one at a shorter rope.

She compelled obedience from him, and the older he grew the shorter grew her temper.

The interval of the larger teeth is filled with shorter teeth.