Sentence Examples

1. Logging in, Skull saw brevity codes confirming that, in addition to the first group of family members making it safely to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Markis and his crew were now in Colombia.
2. As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
3. More to the point, they loved to see their young neighbours, no matter the reason or brevity of the visit.
4. The tone and brevity with which this was stated made it abundantly clear that certain individuals were not pleased.
5. Again, because it is a general complaint that the favorites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories, the same doctor proposed that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should at his departure give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech, or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness and at every levee day repeat the same operation, till the business were done or absolutely refused.
6. The other was a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity.
7. I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity.