laconical

He was a laconical man and not prone to idle conversation.

Under the Hammer

I expressed my thoughts thus ,trying to be laconical.

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It was laconical enough, for it had but one word, and that was

Heiress of Haddon

To say, then, that it is JUST that barbarism should subserve civilization is a laconical axiom, which decides a plain question of right and wrong.

The Right of American Slavery

"Whizz-bangs," was the corporal's laconical remark.

Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916

I was therefore able to rejoice Liszt with the following laconical protest which I sent him from my Swiss resort: 'Stahr is wrong, and Lohengrin is right.'

My Life — Volume 1

In his habitual laconical way he counselled me to reserve all my savings for our journey, and to settle with my creditors when my Parisian successes had provided the necessary means.

My Life — Volume 1

A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.

My Novel — Volume 12

At the second visit of Gryphus, Cornelius, contrary to all his former habits, asked the old jailer, with the most winning voice, about her health; but Gryphus contented himself with giving the laconical answer, --

The Black Tulip

Mediterranean, and in company of a royal fellow traveller might have been interesting even to the most eccentric Yankee, but to me it was a monotonous event, and the second evening while I was walking for some exercise on the deck, H.R. H. came up to me graciously expressing his regrets for not seeing me at the table, and inquiring if I was not feeling well, but he soon noticed my laconical way in excusing my absence, and he withdrew, leaving me alone in my admiration of a grand view on a moonlighted nature in the Mediterranean.

Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker