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

Their creator's remarks about them are sometimes of a marvellous subtlety, expressed in a laconism which seems to regard Marivaudage or Meredithese with an aristocratic disdain.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

She answered other questions with equal firmness and laconism.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

This spiritual laconism invigorated the arm of men who perhaps wanted no other stimulative than the hope of obtaining the immense property of the besieged.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

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

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie