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Infants come with comically distorted versions of adult parts: enormous heads; pudgy, fore-shortened limbs; teeny fingers and toes.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Infants come with comically distorted versions of adult parts: enormous heads; pudgy, fore-shortened limbs; teeny fingers and toes.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

He stopped, looked down between his legs upon the swarming blue and red multitudes, minute and fore-shortened, struggling and gesticulating still towards the little balcony far below, a little toy balcony, it seemed, where he had so recently been standing.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

The fore-shortened black eagles at the fore-ends of the Germans had an effect of actual combat of flying feathers.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The third picture represented the half-nude figure of a woman in a recumbent position, much fore-shortened, with red knees and very big heels.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

A ship's longboat under two balance-lugs was running before the wind in their general direction, it took no more than a glance for Hornblower to identify her as belonging to a ship of the line, and as far as he could judge from her fore-shortened length she was of the largest size, belonging to a three decker, likely enough.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

The scant, brief skirt fore-shortened her; gave her a stork-like appearance; a combination of girlishness and matronliness not pleasing.

Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

Seen from that height he was of course fore-shortened and probably looked more shambling and decrepit than he was.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

In a moment all that was visible of him from the door was a pair of brown riding-boots, very much fore-shortened, resting on the long arm of a cane chair, and two sets of wonderfully modeled fingers that held up a newspaper.

The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

The fore-shortened black eagles at the fore-ends of the Germans had an effect of actual combat of flying feathers.

The War in the Air 1906