laconick

The Criminals were brought out, making a thousand sour Faces; and one who acted as Attorney-General opened the Charge against them; their Speeches were very laconick, and their whole Proceedings concise.

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

To the remonftrance of the Parliament of Paris the anfwers were contemptuous and laconick, and therefore the Members remonftrated again, and abfolutely declared it as their opinion, that his Majefty ought to yield to the general wifti of the Nation, and refcue the public affairs from ruin, by convening the States General.

Political Correspondence; Or, Letters to a Country Gentleman, Retired from Parliament: On the ... 1793

In the running fire of comment on the narrative contained in the lengthy chapter headings she confesses that her book “treats only on such matters as, it is highly probable, some readers will be apt to say might have been recited in a more laconick manner, if not totally omitted; but as there are others, the author imagines much the greater number, who may be of a different opinion, it is judged proper that the majority should be obliged.”

The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915