27 adverbs to describe how to briefest

Even during the comparatively brief period in which young officers entered the navy by joining the college at Portsmouth, it was only the minority who received the special academic training.

In a space incredibly brief the United States became a nation of actual workers, in which every individual did his or her share, submitting meanwhile, with good grace and no murmuring, to being rationed.

Why they should have done such a thing I don't understand, nor do I see how it is to be brought home to them simply by means of this exceedingly brief note.

Hastily they harnessed the ponies and took down the tent, and packed the carts, and in a remarkably brief space of time the party rode off with the utmost speed.

"] It is the pride and privilege of most returned wanderers to hold forth at great length concerning their adventures, but Captain Nugent was commendably brief.

Accordingly it seemed to him to be a surprisingly brief interval before he found himself floating in his boat under the impenetrable shadow of the rocky promontory.

He can't be sober!" All stared; for Captain Kneebone, after one historically brief and outspoken visit, had never in all these years set foot in the port.

Judge MacFarlane was mercifully brief.

Not, I am afraid, that I was so much concerned for the copy of the will as for the possibility of a visit, no matter howsoever brief, from my fair employer; and when, on the stroke of half-past seven, the surgery door flew open with startling abruptness, my fears were allayed and my hopes shattered simultaneously.

Because universal judgments are for him merely brief expressions for aggregates of particular truths, Mill is able to say that all knowledge is generalization, and at the same time to argue that all inference is from particulars to particulars.

He had obviously been briefed by Dad on how we were to proceed for he soon took out a note book and started writing notes.

she supplemented, after she had finished telling her pitiably brief story, "thar's trouble ernough ter go 'round, hain't thar?

My speech was purposely brief, business-like, and confident.

Of the older grammarians, Father Carochi alone has left us actual specimens of the ancient poetic dialect, and his observations are regretably brief.

Of course it would be absurd to suppose that any real feeling could have been engendered by so ridiculously brief an acquaintance.

The actual armed contention of the Madero revolution was singularly brief, culminating in the capture of Ciudad Juarez, which was followed by the resignation of Diaz and Corral.

Upon this foundation your free country has grown to prodigious power in a surprizingly brief period, a power which attracts by its fundamental principle.

" After a tragically brief wedded life with a beautiful girl-cousin, who died of consumption, Orloff returned to St Petersburg to spend the last few months of his life, "broken-hearted and mad."

It was neither studiedly cold, nor absurdly brief, nor traitorously tremulous.

" Mr. Lethbridge was unexpectedly brief in his opening address.

The response, delivered within a few hours, was admirably brief and to the point.

We have included the Shakespeare and the Moxon as attractively brief samples on the approved model of savage banter, and the Jane Eyre as perhaps the most flagrant example of bad taste to be found in these merciless pages.

One of themthe one with the Australian stamp, characteristically brief but kindwas to tell her that the writer, a friend of some standing, was coming to England, and hoped to see her again ere long.

But school fights, when they do occurwhich is only once in a decade nowadays, unless you count junior school scufflesare the outcome of weeks of suppressed bad blood, and are consequently brief and furious.

The jurors were mere shadows, sitting in rows; the prisoner could see a dozen pair of white eyes shining, coldly, out of the darkness; and whenever the judge in his charge, which was contemptuously brief, nodded and grinned and gibed, the prisoner could see, in the obscurity, by the dip of all these rows of eyes together, that the jury nodded in acquiescence.

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