The process was a brief one, but it might have been briefer.

We may add that the briefer form, Neolamarckism, is the more preferable.

One question is all I ask; you can hardly expect me to be briefer.

None could be briefer, for, to arrive at it, man had to be reduced to a minimum.

It was briefer and less satisfactory than he had anticipated.

The last note, dated 1861, March 20, was briefer than its predecessor.

Which is to say, in briefer phrase, that her name will live always.

The youth of this generation promised to be briefer than ever!

The answer is sharp and authoritative, being at once briefer and fuller.

His interview with Lady Ardingly had been briefer, but, he felt, more to the point.