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Briefness   Listen
noun
Briefness  n.  The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Briefness" Quotes from Famous Books



... all day on the Border, and what good company to you the burn is that runs beside the highway? Just so companionable is the music of the ballads in that enchanted country of Gerard's fancy, in the land of the Valois. All the while you read, you have a sense of the briefness of the pleasure, you know that the hero cannot rest here, that the girls and their loves, the cottage and its shelter, are not for him. He is only passing by, happy yet wistful, far untravelled horizons are alluring ...
— Letters on Literature • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Briefness" :   duration, shortness, brief



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