The latter replied in a note of laconic brevity: "If the people of Austin do not send the archives, I shall certainly come and take them; and if Colonel Morton can kill me, he is welcome to my ear-cap.

And there was that diary she kept for Anne, where she notes with extreme brevity the things that are happening in her family.

Sometimes he uses dialectical reasoning; sometimes he soars in mystical exaltation; sometimes he writes with a simplicity level to the common mind, and in connection with that which lies at hand; sometimes, with the most comprehensive brevity.

For abstractions are deities having many specific names, local habitations, and forms of activity, and so get a multitude of devout servants who care no more for them under their highest titles than the celebrated person who, putting with forcible brevity a view of human motives now much insisted on, asked what Posterity had done for him that he should care for Posterity?

It's a poor place here for yer bright oies and soft hands, me lads; but I'm not the wan to throw the dish after th' milk when it's spilt!" He stroked the bared heads of the blushing lads, and, turning to their unhappy sponsor, he added with official brevity: "I will put Twiggs's son at me papers in the adjutant's office.

XIII ATHENAIS In London, about noon of that day, a gentleman whom Lanyard most often thought of by the name of Wertheimer deciphered a code message whose contempt for customary telegraphic brevity was quite characteristic of the sender, indeed a better voucher for his bona fides than the initials appended in place of a signature.

With this sense of the splendor of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch....

He says: "The most remarkable thing in this code, is its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency; the businesslike brevity and directness of the various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed.

There is something slightly repellent in the stern concision, the "imperious brevity," of the Manual.

"Who, for elegant brevities sake, put a participle for a verb.

But this is the precise endeavor of that false brevity nowadays so much in vogue, which proceeds by leaving out useful words and even by sacrificing grammar and logic.

"But why should she want to tell you what would hurt you like that?" "We'd been quarrelling," answered Ally, with an honest brevity that was very edifying.

So said the official bulletin, with its incomparable brevity of eloquence.

Now dreams seem long: we only discover afterwards and by accident their almost incredible brevity.

The National Observer was at the climax of its career of heroic insistence upon lyrical brevity and a vivid finish, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the Fortnightly Review.

The writer of the Koran does, indeed, if any discerner of hearts ever did, take the measure of mankind; and his measure is the same that Satire has taken, only expressed with the majestic brevity of one who had once lived in the realm of Silence.

The mysterious brevity of this first visit of Beethoven to Vienna we find fully explained in a letter, of which we give a more literal than elegant translation.

Miss Rodney never wasted time, and in matters of business had cultivated a notable brevity.

His speech, too, was of ponderous brevity.

In each case expansion, occupation, domination and exploitation are limited by human capacity (human nature); by the relative brevity of a single human life; by the extreme variations in the capacity of successive leaders.

In their sententious brevity Bacon's Essays have, of course, a style more nearly allied to the English Character Writing of the Seventeenth Century than to the Sixteenth Century Essays of Montaigne, which were altogether different in style, matter, and aim.

Mrs. Richards exclaimed with shocked brevity.

This, too, is less remarkable for poetic beauty than for sober philosophy expressed with singular brevity of phrase.

On the other hand, the swiftness of the narrative of the Mariage de Roland, and the soldierly brevity of the Cimetière d'Eylau, a piece not included in this volume, are alike admirable, and show Hugo at his best as a story-teller.

With the stern brevity of the injured, Grahame addressed his disobedient child.