laconical

I expressed my thoughts thus ,trying to be laconical.

Science Friday tomorrow -- Monkey Girl, Flock of Dodos - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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

Under the Hammer 2007

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

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

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

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

Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 John Masefield 1929

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 Richard Wagner 1848

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 Richard Wagner 1848

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

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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 Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836