Crossword-Solution: TERSENESS 9 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.

The strength, affluence and terseness may easily be accounted for, because the style of a man is the man; but how are we to account for that rare polish in his style of writing, which, most critically examined, seems the result of careful early culture among the best classics of our language; it equals if it does not surpass the style of Hugh Miller, which was the wonder of the British literary public, until he unraveled the mystery in the most interesting of autobiographies.

But, says Johnson, with equal truth and terseness, "that distrust of their own immediate commanders which militia are too apt to be affected with, never produced an emotion where Marion and Pickens commanded."* The history of American warfare shows conclusively that, under the right leaders, the American militia are as cool in moments of danger as the best drilled soldiery in the universe.

Desnoyers again said mentally, “He is drunk,” but his curiosity forced him to ask, “What beast is that?” “That of the Apocalypse.” There was a brief silence, but the Russian’s terseness of speech did not last long.

Under George the First, the monotonous smoothness of Byron’s versification and the terseness of his expression would have made Pope himself envious.