The wild anemone has been considered indicative of brevity, because its fragile blossom is so quickly scattered to the wind and lost: "The winds forbid the flowers to flourish long, Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song.

" The brevity of the message was very characteristic of the language.

Reviving hope had filled the heart of Henrich with courage, and he looked boldly up into the Sachem's face, and merely answered, 'Try me.' The brevity and the calmness of the reply pleased the red Chief, and he determined to take him at his word.

Is the purpose of this world conflict from first to last too complicated for brevity, or can we boil it down into a statement compact enough for a newspaper article?

a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

I don't know the name, but two counsel were in it, one of whom was remarkable for the soul of wit which is called brevity, and the other was not.

Unless a writer has what, for the sake of brevity, I have called Vision, enabling him to see clearly the facts or ideas, the objects or relations, which he places before us for our own instruction, his work must obviously be defective.

"It is small marvel if the Consultore seemeth not great to thee; the power of the man is in the clarity of his vision and the brevity of his speech.

There are five lies clapt into one, for brevity's sake.

"The brevity of our acquaintance would hardly warrant my assuming the office of adviser," replied he modestly.

The language they use is barbarous, as being but a dialect of pedlar's French or the Egyptian, though of a loftier sound, and in the propriety affecting brevity, as the other does verbosity.

If he drives an inland trade, he is factor to certain remote country virtuosos, who, finding themselves unsatisfied with the brevity of the Gazette, desire to have exceedings of news besides their ordinary commons.

But the conditions imposed by necessary brevity compel me to pass by those classic names with this acknowledgment, and to hasten toward the fuller revelation of Pantheism as a religion.

[Footnote 3: As imperious brevity excludes full explanation, I must content myself with a reference to The Religion of the Universe, pp.

And then, while that dreadful house stood listening about us in the early hours of this chill morning upon the edge of winter, she told me, with laconic brevity, things about Mabel that I heard as from a distance.

But brevity is produced by simple words, by speaking only once of each point, by aiming at no one object except speaking clearly.

Therefore, in order to narrating with clearness, we must go back to those previous rules for explaining and illustrating facts, in which brevity is enjoined and taught.

And brevity is one of the points most frequently praised in narration, and we have already dwelt enough upon it.

It has two turns, if you either distrust the recollection of those men before whom you are pleading, either on account of the length of time that has elapsed since the circumstances of which you are speaking, or because of the length of your speech; in this case your cause will have the more strength if you bring up numberless corroborative arguments to strengthen your speech, and explain them with brevity.

I have stated these things with greater brevity than the subject deserves; but still, with reference to my present object, it was not worth while being more prolix.

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.

The closeness and brevity of his descriptions make it one of the dryest productions ever issued on geological science, scarcely omitting the work of Humboldt, in which he sought to represent the whole of geology by algebraic symbols.

30.In poetry, and even in some compositions not woven into regular numbers, the simple personal pronouns are not unfrequently used, for brevity's sake, in a reciprocal sense; that is, in stead of the compound personal pronouns, which are the proper reciprocals: as, "Wash you, make you clean.

8 The Rise and Fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire, 1186-1258 From 1186 to 1258 Bulgaria experienced temporary resuscitation, the brevity of which was more than compensated for by the stirring nature of the events that crowded it.

This is a long letter, but when one writes only once in seven years, brevity is not to be expected.