He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer dim, but definite and in the
concise form
concise form in which he imagined himself stating them to the Emperor Francis.
From land to land is the most
concise definition of a ship's earthly fate.
He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in
concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.
But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into
concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most
concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject to those vicissitudes of peace and war, of friendship and enmity, with each other, which have fallen to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a
concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend such a situation.
To be
concise, she is a very friendly good-natured woman; and so industrious to oblige, that the guests must be of a very morose disposition who are not extremely well satisfied in her house.
The Assistant Commissioner intimated by an earnest deferential gesture that he was anxious to be
concise.
I can hardly imagine the young man whom I saw talking with you the other day could express himself so well, if left quite to his own powers, and yet it is not the style of a woman; no, certainly, it is too strong and
concise; not diffuse enough for a woman.
The argument under the present head may be put into a very
concise form, which appears altogether conclusive.
When Captain Bonneville turned upon him an inquiring look, he would observe, "he was a bad man," or something quite as
concise, and there was an end of the matter.
D'Artagnan, from being himself on all great occasions extremely
concise, did not draw from the general's conciseness a favorable augury of the result of his mission.