Meanings of laconic answer in English

But I was stopped by a laconic answer-

I therefore went back; and again made my enquiries, and again received the same dry laconic answer.

I gave also a laconic answer.

Elena is immediately conquered by the laconic answer he makes to her question, "You love your country very dearly?"

I enquire of him when my case is likely to come on, and receive the laconic answer, 'How should I know?'

Here is the laconic answer, characteristic of the writer; frank and unabashed as the round, clear handwriting of the original, from which we copy:

As the boat neared the shore, many inquiries were made, and laconic answers returned.

Ralph understood the old man's laconic answers to imply a remonstrance, and he tried again.

''Tis the fortune of war,' was the old hero's laconic answer.

"There be, young man," was the laconic answer; "and rum things done."

'Perhaps,' was the laconic answer; and the cold eyes gleamed like those of a basilisk.

"The very quality I should most deny," was the laconic answer of Wilder.

"No, they are the books I use," was the laconic answer.

"The bottom is always beneath us," was the laconic answer.

'But I am here,' was the laconic answer.

"They are tried by Lynch law," was Fred's laconic answer.