Noun
(phonics) The vowel sound in the English words cat and rack, usually represented by /æ/ or /a/.
(linguistics, especially UK) The vowel sound in the English words grass and castle when pronounced with a near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/); associated with northern England accents.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer's lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. Frances Hodgson Burnett
You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night. Anatole France
Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. Victoria Woodhull
No matter how short a man is, he will always see the sky. African Proverb