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 O'Rell, Max

She answered other questions with equal firmness and laconism.

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

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

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

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie