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[H]e told me I did not treat him as if he was my husband, or talk of my children as if I was a mother; and, in short, that I did not deserve to be used as a wife.

1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC

Mr Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper—foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape, and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden, penknives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.

1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13

In short, the line did not pay, and it was closed to passenger traffic on September 22, 1930, and to all traffic on April 3, 1950.

1960 April 28, J. M. Dunn, “The Anglesey Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 227

Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess.

2008 December 4, Kate Pickert, “A Brief History of Recounts”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2013