Brief indeed were her moments of indecision.

This time his brief was a book of six hundred and ten printed pages, over which Miss Pauline Goldmark, of the National Consumers' League, and a large corps of trained investigators and students had toiled for many months.

Brief as was his stay in the city of lagoons, every hour of it was profitably employed.

What though long waiting wins more happiness Than petulant desire is wont to gain, My luck in latest age hath brought me pain, Thinking how brief must be an old man's bliss.

Brief as was that glance, and all in the shade as he stood, I recognised him instantly.

Brief was its dream of freedom's rapture; A window barred its sunward flight; It beat its wings in fear of capture, But found no way to the world of light.

Brief as was the glimpse, he was not mistakenit was the figure of a woman.

Brief was the reign of such a spell.

Its brief, stern truth was exactly the tonic she needed.

The brief and singular tempest of February 7th, 1861, was a thing to be forever remembered by those who saw it, as I did, over a wide plain.

An occasional small brief from Hitchin was the beginning and the end of my father's influence, while sessions practice was not the practice I hoped to finish my career with, although I had little hopes of eminence.

Brief was the struggle here.

This brief but eloquent description is itself an embodiment of much of our masonic symbolism, both as to the mode and the subject matter.

Brief and bright were those days, and the night Which followed was full of a lurid light.

King Alfred's noble head was bent, A monarch's pain his bosom rent; Kindly he wrung Thane Egbert's hand "Lo! these have won the blissful land, Where foeman's shout is heard no more, Nor wild waves beat upon the shore; Brief was the pang, the strife is o'er They are at peace, my friend!

Brief is the rainbow and brief the Borealis.

Brief as was the journey it gave him time to reflect upon his coming interview with Rosey.