The attribute of being brief or fleeting.
1 The briefness of the lucifers was merciful or merciless, as you like.
2 But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
3 It was written practically during the battle, so you must excuse its apparent briefness .
4 Then suddenly the reply, beautiful in its briefness , but at the same time explaining everything.
5 The minister performed the ceremony with that briefness which consideration for a wounded person required.
6 The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.
7 And briefness does but raise thy worth.
8 And he made a speech which for expressive briefness surpasses anything I've ever heard, before or since:
9 Terry eyed him with withering briefness .
10 This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.
11 In treating of the second portion of the first half of the book, 'Cloud Beauty,' briefness is now indispensable.
12 I will be briefness itself.
13 The very briefness of that order should have been warning enough, but Joe found it impossible to keep to himself his disapproval.
14 It was nervous, tingling work, for as surely as I sensed his intention of briefness , just as surely had he sensed mine.
15 Coming from the lips of her father, Steve accepted gravely, with a matching briefness that could not hide a surge of triumph.
16 Be that my excuse for the briefness of this; but do not fail, my dear dear Anna, to write fully every thing that passes.
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