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I very much prefer having the tersest definition possible.

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After the publication of her second short story collection, Crucial Instances, Wharton received what she termed surely one of the tersest and most vigorous letters ever penned by an amateur critic.

Old New York, New Wyoming: Two Short Story Collections Abigail Nussbaum 2006

After the publication of her second short story collection, Crucial Instances, Wharton received what she termed surely one of the tersest and most vigorous letters ever penned by an amateur critic.

Archive 2006-09-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

Since his return to the fjord and the fleet's subsequent sailing for open sea, he had spoken only orders, and those in the tersest of terms.

The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

Since his return to the fjord and the fleet's subsequent sailing for open sea, he had spoken only orders, and those in the tersest of terms.

The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

In his address of acceptance, then, Governor Cox stepped to the fore with the tersest of utterances as to his position on the

The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Charles E. Morris

The deep voice filled in the pause also in tersest English.

Desert Love Joan Conquest

And Jill swung ceaselessly to and fro, looking at the man sitting a few yards from her on a rug, before she answered in tersest English:

Desert Love Joan Conquest

Darrow, before answering, waited long enough to get his words into the tersest shape -- not without a sense, as he did so, of his likeness to the surgeon deliberately poising his lancet for a clean incision.

The Reef; a novel 1912

It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen.

Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock 1906