45 collocations for briefer

One passes one's time in the south well enough in winter, but after a year even the most ardent lover of Italy longs to return to his own people, be it ever for so brief a space.

A teacher's guide for the adaptation to brief courses in chemistry, of the textbook Fundamentals of chemistry and applications and of the accompanying Laboratory manual, by Charlotte A. Francis & Edna C. Morse.

Nor is this diversity of opinion a proof that the traces of so great an army could be confounded in the lapse of so brief a period.

MASON, THOMAS E. Brief analytic geometry, by Thomas E. Mason & Clifton T. Hazard.

Martha Foote knew the value of the personal note, and it had been her idea that had resulted in the rule which obliged elevator boys, chambermaids, floor clerks, doormen and waiters if possible, to learn the names of Senate Hotel guests, no matter how brief their stay.

How much more striking would be the calendar counted on the rings of one of those awful trees which were standing when Christ was on earth, and where that brief mortal life is chronicled with the stolid apathy of vegetable being, which remembers all human history as a thing of yesterday in its own dateless existence!

A college book of American literature; briefer course.

It was born on the stage, about ten years ago, at one of the minor theatres at Paris, though probably borrowed from a wine-shop, and most likely will have as brief an existence as our own late "flare-up," and such ephemeral colloquialisms, or rather vulgarisms, that tickle the public fancy for a day, till pushed from their stool by another.

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.

Even song birds had stilled their pipings, and made but brief flights through the sultry air.

The more brief the folly the better the result.

Our political doctrine, if it must be put in as brief a form, would be better expressed in the sentence, 'War is the failure of politics'.

But even as a son by his lawful wife is welcome to a father who hath now travelled to the other side of youth, and maketh his soul warm with lovefor wealth that must fall to a strange owner from without is most hateful to a dying manso also, Agesidamos, when a man who hath done honourable deeds goeth unsung to the house of Hades, this man hath spent vain breath, and won but brief gladness for his toil.

A great deal, no doubt, to read in so brief a glance!

For so brief a space youth glitters like a dewdrop on the tree of life, glitters and is gone.

In so brief a history of so rich a literature, the problem is how to get room enough to give, not an adequate impressionthat is impossiblebut any impression at all of the subject.

"I see that they've briefed Holymead for the defence," he said after a pause.

" He had seen Miss Anna, he resumed, "for so brief an instanton an errandthat he had not made civil inquiry after the others, but had left good-by for them about as a news-carrier wads and throws in the morning paper!"

'It is strange after what, in comparison with such extraordinary changes, must be esteemed so brief an interval,' observed Masham, with a smile, 'to witness such a revolution in his position.

YEARTHESIGER AND PLATTMY FIRST BRIEF IV.

Bitter and brief his logic that reasoned from wrong unto error: "This is their praying and singing," he said, "that makes you reject me, You that were kind to me once.

Dear Friend (if I may be permitted to call you so after so brief an acquaintance),I remember with sincerest pleasure our recent meeting at the inaugural ball, and the sensation created by your beauty, your amiable manners, and your graceful dancing.

Our long friendship was never subject to a moment's interruption,and, while revising these volumes for the last time, I have been so often reminded of my loss, with a not unpleasing sadness, that I trust the Reader will excuse this passing mention of a Man who well deserves from me something more than so brief a notice.

Ample selections are given in Bronson, II., Ward, I., and briefer ones in Manly, I., and Century.

I saw that a fortnight afforded me too brief an opportunity to develop the richness of both, and I resolved to devote my spare time to Mr. Jaffrey alone, instinctively recognizing in him an unfamiliar species.

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