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The Doctor was epigrammatic; the Senator sententious. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Here is still the true, epigrammatic style of his youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Perhaps the most famous of Roosevelt's epigrammatic sayings is. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
"And who may this wise and epigrammatic Sara be, I'd like to know?". From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
Their findings might be summed up in the epigrammatic remark of Clement. From Wordnik.com. [CRISIS IN HISTORY] Reference
A singular epigrammatic style keeps up the interest apart from the story. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
This epigrammatic speech of Mr. Disraeli brought Mr. Gladstone to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
His style is clear and vigorous, and not unfrequently terse and epigrammatic. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
There it is that their quickness and epigrammatic turn of expression are best seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
And many more are there that run along the lines of Scott's epigrammatic summation. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
(I suppose you could say the same of any adult, but it sounds so wonderfully epigrammatic.). From Wordnik.com. [John Barry: The Man Who Knew the Score] Reference
Lord Sherbrooke, with his usual epigrammatic terseness, bids you educate your future rulers. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Make a collection of the epigrammatic sayings in this essay that you think are worth remembering. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
Indeed it may be well surmised that from some of the broad-gauge ideas and epigrammatic sayings of. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
We laughed amazingly at your epigrammatic witticisms; your reputation is already established here. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
"Light, stranger, light and shade," is the laconic, epigrammatic but cordial and hospitable greeting. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900] Reference
The rhythmically taut, epigrammatic libretto by WH Auden and Chester Kallman makes tongue-twisting demands. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
It preserved many epigrammatic gems; often coming from the better -- and brighter -- half of its composition. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Ms. Neiman writes with verve and a sometimes epigrammatic wit, especially when skewering her political comrades. From Wordnik.com. [A Reading List For Democrats] Reference
To sum up which humiliating conclusion good George Herbert has put the matter thus with epigrammatic conciseness. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The others, save for the epigrammatic quotations already mentioned, were more immediately concerned with his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
With his salty talk and epigrammatic humor, he evidently was able to remind voters of why they once were in awe of him. From Wordnik.com. [FACE TO FACE TO FACE] Reference
As the MARKISS says, with that epigrammatic style that makes him so delightful, "The first duty of a Peer is to appear.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892] Reference
Religious poetry draws heavily on both the epigrammatic tendency to verbal paradox and the theological tendency to adapt. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY PARADOX] Reference
At this time there was a Grecian epigrammatic poet, ALCÆ'US, of Messe'ne, who was an ardent partisan of the Roman consul. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
His style is brilliant, epigrammatic, and subtile; and he prefers to imply many things rather than to state them directly. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
He treasures up pithy sayings, and his own reflections are often epigrammatic in expression, and always full of good sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
The captain and his family seem at first glance to be charming to a fault, a veritable fountain of epigrammatic cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart That Victoria Broke] Reference
Angelus Silesius exploits the negative theology in his epigrammatic formulation of God's immanence and man's perception of it. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY PARADOX] Reference
Out of a disciplined and fertile mind he pours forth epigrammatic sentences and suggestions in a fashion which recalls Emerson. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Luis de Leon does not emulate Alcázar's epigrammatic wit, nor Herrera's Petrarchan sweetness, nor Ercilla's tumultuous rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
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