abort
Definition: to give up unfinished
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...`` Oh, if these are your only object -RRB- Mrs. Smith, archly, " Mr. Elliot is i shall give myself no more trouble abort not forget me when you are married, Let him know me to be a friend of your he will think little of the trouble requ it ia very natural for him now, wit affairs and engagements of his own, t -LRB- get rid of as he can,--very natura Ninety-nine out of a hundred would d Of course, he can not be aware of the in me ....
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - By Washington Irving
...Thus have I given a tedious brief account of this interesting research, for which, if it prove too abort and unsatisfactory, I can only plead my inexperience in this branch of literature, so deservedly popular at the present day ....
The Valley of the Moon - By Jack London
...CHAPTER XII Crossing the Sacramento on an old-fashioned ferry a abort distance above Rio Vista, Saxon and Billy entered the river country ....
Ten Thousand a Year - By Samuel Warren
...prodigious oath, he enclosed the abort a -RRB- count and sent it off to his father, in the fol lowing pithy letter :--" York Caiue, \* 9tb Dee., IS-. "...
The Well-beloved - By Thomas Hardy
...The abort works are for tale by all booktelltrt, or will be tent by the puUiilien, postage prepaid, on receipt of the price ....
Nash's Pall Mall Magazine -
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The Library - By Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson
...copies either abort or tall \* 93ut j' ou, 3D alntoeo of fibclf aim stall !...
The Air Trust - By George Allan England, John Sloan
...They, through their press and speakers--in case they should believe him and co-operate with him--could, indeed, give the matter vast publicity and excite popular opposition; but, after all, could they abort the plan ?...
The amateur's magazine -
...tJnt an extract will better express our ideas--`` Take but one drop from Time 's progressive stream One circling day; when morning breaks the dream Of slumbring earth, and far o ` er distant hills Aurora 's glance the tears of night dispels j As, one by one, the stars retreating smile, A abort adieu to slumber for awhile; Awakened choirs in sylvan fanes unite And hymn an ode of welcome to the light--The gay-plumed cock, proud herald of the morn, Conducts the anthem 's burden in his turn, While Idwing herds and bleating flocks prolong, And swell the chorus of this opening song ....
An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction - By William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler
...In abort, bid Rocinante change with IVira -, und you do no more than Mr. Viino1 letter lu-ld uut t Triplet ....
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale - By Frank Lucius Packard
...The-So # was closed and dark; and, though Spider Jack lived abort the store, there were no lights even in the upper window \* Spider Jack presumably was either out, or in bed !...
A Library of Famous Fiction - By Harriet Beecher Stowe
...Wiien he came in with his booty, Undine seldom failed to greet him with a scolding, because he had cruelly deprived her dear merry friends of life as they were sporting abort; in the blue ocean of the air; nay, more, she often wept bitterly when she viewed the water-fowl dead in his hand ....