"Curtail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Executive Department, the National Assembly shall have no right to abolish or curtail any ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
... several measures came before Parliament which Mr. Gladstone opposed. He vindicated the freedom of the Belgian press, whose liberty some of the powers would curtail, and opposed resolutions to consider the state of education in England and Wales, as tending to create a central controlling power, involving secular instruction and endless religious quarrels. He also opposed the budget of Sir G.C. Lewis, ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook
... rents and precariousness of prices, every mortgagee will be driven in desperation to recur upon his debtor, and every landlord upon his tenant; while the whole landed interest, high and low, though chiefly, no doubt, the middle and smaller proprietors and tenants, will be compelled to curtail their expenses to the lowest sum, and those who have already but a narrow margin of surplus, be reduced ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various
... It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day— I like to dock the smaller parts-o-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tailed cur (You catch the paronomasia, play 'po' words?) Did, rather, i' the pre-Landseerian days. Well, to my muttons. I purchased the concern, And clapt it i' my poke, having given for same By way o' chop, ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... pause before Whitney spoke. "Are you willing to let me curtail your note with a payment of ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
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