To put the matter more concisely, it is just six days since he drove his horse "Creeping Peter" on the track at Monmouth Park, Long Branch.

Parks came in looking decidedly shaky; but answered Grady's questions clearly and concisely.

[150] The Art of Rhetorick concisely and completely handled, exemplified out of Holy Writ, etc.

The most conspicuous of these are the great Plotinus, the most learned Porphyry, the divine Jamblichus, the most acute Syrianus, Proclus the consummation of philosophic excellence, the magnificent Hierocles, the concisely elegant Sallust, and the most inquisitive Damascius.

His ideas arranged themselves concisely and clearly.

A fact the consequences of which were so important for the entire of Europe merits considerable attention; but it is most difficult to explain at once concisely and clearly the series of accidents, manoeuvres, tricks, and crimes by which it was accomplished.

Adv. concisely &c adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.

I said I would send him the secret letters, and get together information that would bring the whole state of India before him as concisely as possible.

But it's such a risk taking in strangers; is it any friends of yours you're thinking of?' "'Nat and me,' said I, concisely.

He told it in order, concisely and to the point, while Grimm and his chief listened.

For this rhythm which they attack so has no other effect except to cause the speaker to clothe his ideas in appropriate language; and that was done by the ancients also, not unusually by accident, and often by nature; and those speeches of theirs which are exceedingly praised, are so generally because they are concisely expressed.

" Then, clearly and concisely, the commissary went over the situation, considering his friend's problem from various points of view; and so absorbed was he in fairly setting forth the advantages and disadvantages of the Rio Janeiro position that he did not observe Coquenil's utter indifference to what he was saying.

Then he gave his orders concisely.

Bridger had told them very concisely that he would pay them a thousand dollars for the first ear of corn raised in Salt Lake Valley.

In the next chapter we will give, as concisely as we can, the whole process that we ourselves used in our dairy.

Thus, in the above examples, suppose A and B had been selected because they were equal when compared together, then we can concisely express the relative merits of the two classes to which they respectively belong, by saying that 16°.6 in the one is equal to 50° (the median) in the other.

Don't you think it's pretty?" "Dandy," approved Roger concisely, as he continued to draw.

There is no leisurely exposition of time, place, or situation; all the necessary elements are given concisely in the first sentences.

This measure and its results have been concisely described by Taylor, as follows: "General Bell said he was as anxious as any one could be to avoid making war against those who really wanted the termination of hostilities, and it was his duty to protect them against the vengeance of others.

She explained at length, concisely, standing quite still, with one frail, fine hand worrying the locket she wore at her throat.

It would, perhaps, have been scarcely possible for Sterne to state his essentially unhealthy philosophy of life so concisely as in this naïve passage.

The result of the investigation of mortality may be concisely stated as follows:Of children born there die, in Leeds, 53 per cent.

In the twenty years that have elapsed since this early legislation there has been considerable clarifying in the legislative mind; modern statutes, and especially constitutional provisions, stating the offence much more concisely, with a simple reliance upon the common law, leaving it, in other words, for the courts to define.

They askor at least some of them, to my knowledge, askfor a history in which the picturesque side of the story shall not be ignored, written simply and concisely by a writer who has made a special study of his subject, or who has lived and moved amongst the places, persons, and incidents he describes.

I had made up my mind, during the time I had been sitting alone in that sombre room, as to what I would say to him, and how clearly and concisely I would array my wrongs in words, and pronounce his sentence.