Monks who were absent substituted for the Scripture lesson which they had missed, the pithy extract from St. Peter, "Fratres; sobrii estote," which we now read.

" <Concise, terse, succinct, compendious, compact, sententious, pithy, laconic, curt.

A pithy statement gives the very pith, the heart of a matter; it is sometimes slightly quaint, always effective and arresting.

No, noI hate your pithy sayings; they commonly mean nothing that is substantially good, at bottom.

"Dale gave it to him," was the answer pat and pithy.

One only thing, as it comes into my mind, let me remember you of, that you consider wherein the Historian excelleth, and that to note: as DION NICAEUS in the searching the secrets of government; TACITUS, in the pithy opening of the venom of wickedness; and so of the rest.

When Henry heard of Raymond's daring capture of Limerick in 1176, and then of his retreat, he made one of his pithy "Great was the courage in attacking it, and yet greater in the subduing of it, but the only wisdom that was shown was in its desertion.

The imperial "Meditations" are without art or arrangement,a sort of diary, valuable solely for their precious thoughts; not lofty soarings in philosophical and religious contemplation, which tax the brain to comprehend, like the thoughts of Pascal, but plain maxims for the daily intercourse of life, showing great purity of character and extraordinary natural piety, blended with pithy moral wisdom and a strong sense of duty.

Manso has left a collection of one hundred of his pithy sayingsa suspicious amount, and unfortunately more than warranting the suspicion; for almost every one of them is traceable to some other man.

Warming to him for his pithy analysis of character, I enlarged upon my theme.

Hell, try clipping a pithy passage out of a paper book and pasting it into your sig-file.

The principle of selection adopted is to retain the most pithy, and attractive, portion of each article: omitting quotations and the discussion of particular passages.

Later translators, like Tyndale and the makers of the Authorized Version, or "King James's Bible" (1611), followed Wiclif's language in many instances; so that he was, in truth, the first author of our biblical dialect and the founder of that great monument of noble English which has been the main conservative influence in the mother-tongue, holding it fast to many strong, pithy words and idioms that would else have been lost.

Having delivered this short and pithy sermon, he seated himself, and resumed the offending hat with the utmost composure.

I've got my feelings "It ain't all jam being a god," said the sunburnt man, and for some time conversed by means of such pithy but unprogressive axioms.

His Meditations well repay careful study; they are full of wisdom and of an imaginative philosophy, expressed in pithy and telling form, which continually reminds the reader of Blake's Proverbs of Hell.

Or rather, the ploughshare is but concealed; since a pithy old English preacher has said that, "the frost is God's plough, which He drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole.

A turnip that is wilted, or that appears spongy, pithy, or cork-like when cut, is not fit for food.

Reject those that are wilted, pithy, coarse, or stringy.

The pithy remark of Talleyrand, that "they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing," was abundantly verified.

Be this as it might, the burgher was received by a cheer which drew a short but pithy address from him, in which he exhorted his companions in arms to do their duty, in a manner which should teach the Frenchmen the wisdom of leaving that coast in future free from annoyance; while he wisely abstained from all the commonplace allusions to king and country,a subject to which he felt his inability to do proper justice.

" Old Mr. Downie, the parish minister of Banchory, was noted, in my earliest days, for his quiet pithy remarks on men and things, as they came before him.

The old gentleman objected to it as too lengthy, and proposed the following pithy substitute: "'Had Skinner been of carnal mind, As strangely ye suppose, Or had he even been fond of swine, He'd ne'er have left Montrose.'

how much more pithy and expressive than cross-examined!

" There are two very pithy Scottish proverbial expressions for describing the case of young women losing their chance of good marriages by setting their aims too high.