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It dislodged Pisa in the western Mediterranean, whittled away at Venice’s hold on eastern ports, and set up colonies on the Black Sea for trade with Russia and faraway Cathay.
In the 1992 election cycle, however, Ron Brown whittled it down to 3-2, thanks to corporate contributions.
The tiny black dress of a scrawny girl at a party exposes thin whittled legs ending in vast square-toed ankle boots just perfect for hiking over miles of Himalayan glacier or surviving in the trenches during World War I. Delicate pumps would never set off her frame as well as these monsters do.
"Ellison did not leave behind the shapely building that Callahan has given us," Gregory Feeley wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine . Critics quoted in the article complain that sections of the novel published as excerpts during Ellison's lifetime are missing, that important characters have withered or vanished, and that 1,500 or more pages have been whittled down to 350.
By the time of the Spanish–American War of 1898, the Spanish empire of the Golden Age had been whittled to insignificance.