laconism

Example Sentences

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The only time he abandoned his Trappist laconism was when Alba went to visit him in his tunnel of books.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The just and elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the past for the present tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what was George Canning.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 268, August 11, 1827 by Various

Abb� Morellet pays many thanks for the answers to his queries, but complains of their shortness and laconism; however it is not your fault.

From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Cushing, Max Pearson

"Fifty-one cents," said the girl, through the inimitable laconism of gum chewing.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

For that hand writes often by abbreviations, hieroglyphics, and short characters, which, like the laconism on Belshazzar’s wall, are not to be made out but by a key from that Spirit that indited them.’ 

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander