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

A terse statement is rubbed off, rid of unessentials.

Each speaker spoke but a few terse expressive sentences; and after each speech came a pause allowing full time for the consideration of its reasoning.

Thy gibes and thy jokes are now extinct, or survive but in two forgotten volumes, which I had the good fortune to rescue from a stall in Barbican, not three days ago, and found thee terse, fresh, epigrammatic, as alive.

The labour of expanding a terse sentence to its full meaning is often greater than the labour of picking out the meaning from a diffuse and loitering passage.

"That terse remark made her sit up and take notice, for she had been telling one of the members of the party who she was trying to make a hit with that she got her money from her large estates in England.

The impassive Dervish raved; Mustapha stormed; François broke out in a frightful eruption of Greek and Turkish oaths, and the two travellers, though not (as I hope and believe) profanely inclined, could not avoid using a few terse Saxon expressions.

The lower features were terse, succinct, and powerful,from the bold, decided jaw, to the large, firm, ugly, good-humored mouth.

"AEQUANIMITAS" Watchword sublime of Rome's imperial sage, Tersest of synonyms for self-control, Paramount precept of the Stoic's age, Noblest of mottoes for the lofty soul, Would thou wert writ in characters of light, At every turn to greet my reverent gaze, And bid me face life's evils, calm, upright, Unspoiled alike by calumny or praise!

Johnson's periods act like a lever of the third kind,the power applied always exceeds the weight raised; while the terse, laconic style of later writers is eminently a lever on the first principle, and gives the mind the utmost purchase on the subject in hand.

Without being open to the charge of levity or flippancy, Mr. Chamberlain's speeches used to be remarkable for a certain amount of humour, banter, touch-and-go smartness, as well as terse argumentative force.

The "Rufus Stone," as the iron memorial is called, with its terse and non-committal inscription was placed here by a former Lord de la Warr.

Hence the Russian speech, like the Russian thought, is direct, terse and almost crude in its elemental power.

It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen.

"If Pulse of Terse, a Nation's Temper shows, In keen Iambics English Metre flows.

In reviews and critical essays, the general characters of style are usually designated by such epithets as these;concise, diffuse,neat, negligent,terse, bungling,nervous, weak,forcible, feeble,vehement, languid,simple, affected,easy, stiff,pure, barbarous,perspicuous, obscure,elegant, uncouth,florid, plain,flowery, artless,fluent, dry,piquant, dull,stately, flippant,majestic, mean,pompous, modest,ancient, modern.

A terse or concise style is very apt to be elliptical: and, in some particular instances, must be so; but, at the same time, the full expression, perhaps, may have more precision, though it be less agreeable.

His vein of satire was keen, terse, and powerful, beyond any that has since been displayed.

His style was clear, terse, compact ...

In one speech a Chippewa chief put into terse form the reasons for making the treaty, and for giving the Americans title to the land, saying, "Elder Brother, you asked who were the true owners of the land now ceded to the United States.

Query whether it is not a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.

" The answer was given in a number of sharp, terse, letters, sent to the Liberator from various places where the sisters stopped while lecturing.

The pillow of this daring head Is pungent evergreens; His larder terse and militant Unknown, refreshing things; His character a tonic, His future a dispute; Unfair an immortality That leaves this neighbor out.

Those who have read the novel, and those who, like ourselves, have seen only the title, may be equally willing to hear the story of this high-spirited dame told in the terse, rapid mannerbrief, but full of detailof Dumas.

The maxims of a Poor Richard are anticipated here, as quaint, as terse, and as sagacious in the ancient Jew as in the modern American.