"Brevity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... find in Professor Whitney's Second Lecture? He objects, like myself, to comparing the growth of language and the growth of a tree, and like myself, he admits of an excuse, viz., when the metaphor is employed for the sake of brevity or liveliness ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... consideration.* It is best, at all events for beginners, not to aim so much at being brief, or forcible, as at being perfectly clear. Horace says, "While I take pains to be brief, I fall into obscurity," and it may easily be seen that several of the rules for brevity interfere ...
— How to Write Clearly - Rules and Exercises on English Composition • Edwin A. Abbott
... the card-table bent their heads over the crumpled piece of note-paper spread out before them. Ross smoothed out its edges with his big hand, and the words became distinct enough; the very brevity of the message was touched with sensationalism. It ran: 'I am your brother. Save me!' and there was not another vestige of writing on ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... as good as dead," he observed, with cold brevity. "Better call at the house of the Miserecordia; the brethren will ...
— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli
... assembly, where I see very distinguished people, like the senor, the present gobernadorcillo; his predecessor, my distinguished friend, Don Valentine; his other predecessor, Don Julio; our renowned captain of the cuadrilleros, Don Melchior, and so many others, whom, for brevity, I will not mention, and whom you see here present. I entreat your honors to give me the floor before any one else speaks. Am I happy enough to have the assembly accede to my humble request?" And the speaker ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
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