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Both players try to tally up the most points as they become short-winded masters.
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Reviewing that capacious and ambitious earlier novel for The New Yorker in 2001, John Updike rather delicately observed that Pamuk's desire to write in the 19th-century tradition, to access "a more generous, less nibbled attention span," to breathe "with bigger lungs" and write "long, deep and wide" might not be entirely suited to his "relatively short-winded" style. Maybe.
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He gave pursy as a "corrupt orthography" or misspelling of pussy. In 1913, however, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary reversed the original, suggesting that pussy was a "colloquial or low" variant of pursy. That word, in turn, was defined as "fat and short-breathed", with etymology from Old French pousser "to push". In the Northern English variant of British English, the dialect form pursy, now rare or obsolete, means "fat" or "short- winded".
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On the return journey, Shackleton had by his own admission "broken down" and could no longer carry out his share of the work. He later denied Scott's claim in The Voyage of the Discovery, that he had been carried on the sledge. He was in a seriously weakened condition; Wilson's diary entry for 14 January reads: "Shackleton has been anything but up to the mark, and today he is decidedly worse, very short winded and coughing constantly, with more serious symptoms that need not be detailed here but which are of no small consequence one hundred and sixty miles from the ship". On 4 February 1903, the party finally reached the ship.
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