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Will nothing suit but to break a party's neck? 'Wake up, will yer? or do yer want that ere Bayswater to pass us? are inquiries he will make in the most peremptory manner. Or he will concentrate contempt in the laconic but withering observation: 'Now then, stoopid!
The contrast to Napoleon is no Where more seen than in the dispatches of the one and the bulletins of the other. In his demeanour to his men, the Duke was reserved; in his language, curt and laconic.
Oh, such a rage went through her veins as she saw the air of triumph, laconic, indifferent triumph which sat so obstinately and recklessly on his eyelids as he looked down at her. Ah, she despised him! But there he stood up in that choir gallery like Balaam's ass in front of her, and she could not get beyond him. A certain winsomeness also about him.
The epic, indeed or what in those days passed for such can hardly be said to have come within its scope. This was written the very year in which Paradise Lost, with its laconic sneer at rhyme as a device "to set off wretched matter and lame metre", was given to the world.
"I am going to kill this animal this hideous horrible animal," said Monsieur the Viscount, struggling vainly under the grasp of the tutor's finger and thumb. "It is only a toad," said Monsieur the Preceptor, in his laconic tones. "Only a toad, do you say, Monsieur?" said the Viscount. "That is enough, I think.
It is that of laconic and either intentionally or unintentionally humorous utilisations of the letter-form. Of one sort Captain Walton's "Spanish fleet taken and destroyed as per margin" is probably the most noted type: of another the equally famous rejoinder of the Highland magnate to his rival "Dear Glengarry, When you have proved yourself to be my chief, I shall be happy to admit your claim.
In his ordinary manners he carried eccentricity to an extravagant extent, was brusque and curt in speech, often to the verge of insult, laconic in his despatches, and a soldier in grain treated with stinging sarcasm all whose lack of activity or of courage invited his contempt.
It was on her second visit that she was attracted to a small cot, from which a pinched little face with wondrous brown eyes looked up appealingly. "How do you do?" Blue Bonnet said, dropping down beside the cot and taking the thin hand on the coverlet in her own. "How do you do?" came the laconic answer. "Nicely, thank you." "Did you bring paper dolls?" "Yes."
All things mortal meet with a change, as my sisters little boy said when, at the age of eight, he quitted the Methodys and turned Shaker. Threep and argue as we may, you and I are both mortals more's the pity. By the post that day the Colonel transmitted a condensed and laconic report of his conversation with Graham Vane. I can state its substance in yet fewer words.
At Ratisbon, when the Notary April thought, in the presence of witnesses, to serve him with the declaration of outlawry which had been issued against his king, he had, with the laconic exclamation, "What! you serve?" thrown him, or caused him to be thrown, down stairs.
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