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Meanings of laconic reply in English

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Usage of laconic reply in English
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Melin picked the question out of my surly and laconic reply.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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Mr. Edison sent the laconic reply: 'Why doesn't he try it and see?'
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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Wrote letters and carried messages and went to the city, is the laconic reply.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
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Despite Munoz's laconic reply, Julia knew there was something else.
The Flanders Panel
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Pat shot a single glance upwards, and made laconic reply.
The Bars of Iron
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He wrote to his father to this effect, and received the stern and laconic reply:
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
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Hugo quite needlessly apologized for quoting the Frenchman's laconic reply to the summons to surrender.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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The laconic reply grated on Eskkar's nerves.
Quest for honour
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Roger' was Kev's laconic reply.
Summer of Night
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I believe Lord Sydenham's laconic reply was, that he had to do with religious bodies in Canada, not in England.
The Story of My Life / Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Publi...
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Notwithstanding the importance of the challenge, on the 19th of May he received a sealed packet containing the following superbly laconic reply:
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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On alighting at the post-station, we at once ordered horses for the next stage, and received the laconic reply, "There are no horses."
Russia
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At each of his laconic replies she would shake her head with astonishment.
The Goose Man
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There was something peculiarly provocative of curiosity in the laconic replies of the man.
A Venetian June
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'This deputation received the same laconic reply as those preceding it.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
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But I receive only laconic replies.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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