"But why not more succinctly state that the Escurial is not a dromedary, although there are many flies in France?

He may be succinctly said to have a newspaper mind, as he reduces every thing in nature or art to news, and commonly imparts to it so much of his own peculiar character, that it loses all identity with the subjects to which it originally belonged.

" "London Hospital," replied the inspector, succinctly, as he turned to a subordinate.

But again he mastered himself and went on succinctly, as quickly as possible.

What are you allowed to do on Sunday anyway?" "Church," succinctly.

When they conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all; Menelaus spoke succinctly, few but very sweet words, since he was not talkative, nor superfluous in speech, and was the younger.

"How much?" asked Gilbert succinctly.

The British strategy at the time of Trafalgar, as far as it was concerned with opposition to Napoleon's sea-going fleets, may be succinctly described as stationing off each of the ports in which the enemy's forces were lying a fleet or squadron of suitable strength.

" "We fought before for great wealth; we fight now that we may live," Aab-Waak summed up succinctly.

behold a brief abstract of all that which I have said, and much more, succinctly, pithily, pathetically, perspicuously, and elegantly delivered in twelve motions to mitigate the miseries of marriage, by Jacobus de Voragine, 1.

The state of society could not be more succinctly summed up than in the words with which Jugurtha quitted Rome.

Perhaps the position may be succinctly stated"the bride of three nights was not enceinte!

I am merely attempting to express succinctly the doctrines which have been proclaimed throughout Germany for years, of which this war is the logical outcome, and in the light of which alone its incidents can be understood.

The devil of mischief looked out of Johnny's gray eyes, as he nearly said, 'We are going to fight Leila Yorke fiction and the Potter press.' Choking it back, he said, succinctly, 'Publishing, journalism, and writing.

Sir Vincent's argument may or may not convince, but it is succinctly stated.

We have done enough for our purpose in thus succinctly intimating its course.

On this point Dr. Ingleby says, succinctly and decidedly, "The primal evidence of the forgery lies in the ink writing, and in that alone";[S]

" That succinctly is the naturalistic theory of the novel as a work of sciencethat as the history of a nation lies hidden often in social wrongs and in domestic grief as much as in the movements of parties or dynasties, the novelist must do for the former what the historian does for the latter.

"No, thank you, Bobby," she said succinctly.

He was the sort of doctor that is in manners, in morals, in methods and appearance, most succinctly and finally expressed by the word "rising.

Mr. Joyce's book shows comprehensively and succinctly the history of the changes which have brought matters to their present point, and the look which they wear in the eyes of a zealous Churchman, disturbed both by the shock given to his ideas of fitness and consistency, and by the prospect of practical evils.

" I have thus noticed succinctly, perhaps I might more appropriately say described, these letters.

because I never learned to express great matters succinctly and well;great matters like the moving of the soul and mind by the Divine Breath....

If we adhere strictly to the proper signification of the terms used, the development can be somewhat succinctly described by the simple enumeration of the three characteristic features of its progress, viz.

" Upon this Jocelyn succinctly related to the Ambassador all such particulars of his history as have been laid before the reader.