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
You may, perhaps, imagine that laconism could no further go.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
"Blight, Mildew, and Smut," he replied, with the laconism of one who is absolutely certain of his own mind.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
He never spoke much himself; of a truth, his gentle, immutable laconism was the only charge that his comrades ever brought against him.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
"En grant barnage fu Looys entrez; Quant il fu riche, Guillaume n'en sot gré," ends the poem with its usual laconism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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