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Most folk called it "The Settlement"; others, with quite sufficient conciseness for our neighbourhood, spoke of "them there fellows up by Halliday's"; others again, with a hint of derision, named them the "monks." This last title I supposed to be intended for satire, and knew to be fatuously wrong.
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As compression was with him almost a mania, as, indeed, it was with his friend Tourgéneff, he seemed born on purpose to write Short-stories. Tourgéneff carried his desire for conciseness so far that he seems always to be experimenting to see how much of his story he may leave out.
Now, through conversation, through instruction in general, through so many conflicting opinions, but especially through my fellow-boarder Hofrath Pfeil, I learned to value more and more the importance of the subject-matter and the conciseness of the treatment; without, however, being able to make it clear to myself where the former was to be sought, or how the latter was to be attained.
The picture of society under the pressure of a murderous epidemic, with its train of physical torments, wretchedness, and demoralization, has been drawn by more than one eminent author, but by none with more impressive fidelity and conciseness than by Thucydides, who had no predecessor, nor anything but the reality, to copy from.
He wound up his lecture, which had a conciseness and pertinence about it not often found in lectures, by the brief announcement that he should forthwith make an order committing Mr. John Hanbury to Holloway Prison. There was an ominous silence for a brief second or so. Then the Court was addressed by Mr.
Very properly, the first of the two sons to be singled out specifically is the more important of the two, the prodigal: "And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me." Thus, in only two sentences, the reader is given the entire basis of the story. The swift and simple narrative that follows is masterly in absolute conciseness.
It was truly ironic that, three days after his attacking a member of the family for betraying the family, he himself should be guilty of far greater betrayal! How topsy-turvy the world seemed, and what was to be done? The brevity and conciseness of Dahlia's last letter left him in no doubt as to her intentions. Breach of Promise!
Dick answered with conciseness enough. "I'm her husband. Who are you?" Mary called a soft admonition. "Don't speak, any of you," she directed. "You mustn't let him hear your voices." Dick was exasperated by this persistent identification of herself with these criminals in his father's house. "You're fighting me like a coward," he said hotly. His voice was bitter.
Sound itself loses its sharp conciseness, and reaches the brain only as a blurred and indistinct impression. But perhaps the reader may say that he has once done twenty-five or thirty miles in a day, and did not feel half as bad as that.
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