Crossword-Solution: SHORTEST 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement.

The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.

What is the best way, Thuvia, the shortest way out of this celestial Hades?” “Straight to the top of the cliffs, Prince,” she replied, “and then through the gardens to the inner courts.

The black was taking him the shortest way, which was no way at all for a horseman, and after the first day’s march the young Englishman was forced to abandon his mount, and follow his nimble guide entirely on foot.

The river lured him by the shortest path toward its refreshing waters, and when he had drunk, night already had fallen and he was some half mile or more down stream from the point where he had seen the pile of yellow ingots, and where he hoped to meet the memory woman, or find some clew to her whereabouts or her identity.