I shall want the rest to lengthen out the 9th for which the business with Burgundy affords not enough materials. prolixity is always bad. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 249] Reference
Forgive my prolixity, which is yet too brief for all I could wish to say. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
I fancy, though, that I have said too much about him already, and my prolixity is the more uncalled for as he is not the hero of my story. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and Other Stories] Reference
The poem was reduced to twelve cantos, all its so-called prolixity was eliminated and it was revised in accordance with eighteenth century taste and made "reasonable and elegant". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Can you imagine if every sign accommodated this kind of prolixity?. From Wordnik.com. [Your cooperation in reading this blog post is requested] Reference
Your selves would judge but vain prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
I hope this will cause you to excuse my prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
This isn't easy for a man given to nuance and prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Debate Checklists for Kerry and Bush] Reference
Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting work. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
As they are, their dulness and prolixity are past endurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference
He repeatedly disclaims both prolixity and rhetorical ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Spacey turns this prolixity into the hysteria of self-revelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Iceman Catches Fire] Reference
Mr Rugg then stated, not without prolixity, the heads of his protest. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
There is something to be enjoyed in each, no doubt, but what prolixity!. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
For too much method produces iterations and prolixity as well as none at all. From Wordnik.com. [Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History] Reference
To avoid dryness and prolixity he condensed quotations, and occasionally employed the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Tedious by its prolixity, the language, unintelligible to me, made it still more wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
The prolixity of the narrative, too, is always in monstrous disproportion to its importance. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
He didn't write about most of it until old age cursed him with ill-health, penury and prolixity. From Wordnik.com. ['Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy'] Reference
But I, who naturally avoid prolixity, have confined myself in this Work to narrow limits, for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Moses only briefly alludes to these facts, so will I also avoid prolixity, as the thing speaks for itself. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
Nevertheless, I will begin another, upon supposition that my doleful prolixity will be disagreeable to you. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It is related with much less than the usual prolixity, and contains two characters of distinct individuality. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Since they are the touchstone of the modern Swedish faith, the reader will pardon prolixity if I give them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
They relate the clever things their offspring say or do, and weary every company with their prolixity and absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
Of necessity, it must contribute to the formation of the legal code, “the prolixity” that cannot be contained in a. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The commentary of Proclus on the Timaeus is a wonderful monument of the silliness and prolixity of the Alexandrian Age. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
Accordingly, all prolixity and all binding together of unmeaning observations that are not worth reading should be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
Yet another approach will demand both more and less from allegorical syncretism and will perhaps justify its endless prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The state of his eyes, the state of his limbs, the state of his digestion were all stated with the utmost minuteness and prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Of necessity, it must contribute to the formation of the legal code, “the prolixity” that cannot be contained in a Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
THE STORY OF INGENUITY is one of the most modern forms of the short story, and, if I may be pardoned the prolixity, one of the most ingenious. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
But to avoid all prolixity, it will be sufficient to observe that he composed this wooden elephant in such a manner that all the parts could be separated. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In the past, confronted with such questions, he had come across as the world's greatest graduate student, versed to the point of prolixity on every imaginable topic. From Wordnik.com. [Runs, Hits, No Errors] Reference
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