concisest

“And, as if by way of not wanting to abuse her trust, he gave her the concisest answer she could have imagined him capable of.”

Simon & Schuster: River Boy

“CONSCIENCE: Thucydides made himself a thorough master of the concisest of styles.”

Tales of St. Austin's

“The picture may be drawn in detail, as in the story of the Lost Son (Luke xv. 11-32), or it may be the concisest narration possible, as in the parable of the Leaven (Matt.xiii. 33); but it always retains its character as a narrative true to human experience.”

The Life of Jesus of Nazareth

“The stormy career of the famous hetman, so dramatic, both from the historic and domestic point of view -- from that adventure with the _pan_ Falbowski, so naively related by Pasek, down to the romance with Matrena Kotchoubey, which colored the last and tragic incidents of his existence -- is so well known that I will not narrate it here, even in the concisest form.”

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

“In the _Orders and Regulations for Soldiers_, perhaps the concisest description of earnest living ever written, he says: --”

The Authoritative Life of General William Booth

“To some men the concisest statement of a subject, with nothing to adorn the naked skeleton of thought, is most forcible.”

Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching

“The foregoing system of the adat, or customs of the country, being digested chiefly for the use of the natives, or of persons well acquainted with their manners in general, and being designed, not for an illustration of the customs, but simply as a standard of right, the fewest and concisest terms possible have been made use of, and many parts must necessarily be obscure to the bulk of readers.”

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants

“This we shall now relate in the clearest and concisest manner that the thing will allow; being well furnished for that purpose, having to personal experience added the best intelligence that could be procured, and that, too, from persons the most deserving of credit.”

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed

“Nur al-Din acquainted him with that which he would know in the goodliest words and concisest phrases; and the Caliph asked him, "And where hast thou been absent all this while?”

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