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 latter read it without betraying the slightest emotion, or even surprise; then, with a laconism that was wholly Laced�monian, he said: "Place the light."
From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre
Paling suddenly, Mr. Hildreth dropped his eyes and replied humbly, though with equal laconism, "I was thinking."
From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine
You may, perhaps, imagine that laconism could no further go.
From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max
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
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