One night a courier arrived at Montaignac, bearing the following laconic despatch:

Roosevelt sent the following laconic appeal to some of the voters of his district:

Then, turning to M. de la Vrillière, the king dictated the following laconic notice:-

A few days afterward, he received the following laconic note:

The following laconic epistle to Captain Troubridge, at Leghorn, exhibits a true sailor's letter.

The commission he solicited was transmitted to him by Mr. Corbin, in the following laconic letter:

Shorn of all bureaucratic rhetoric, the new laws may be reduced to the following laconic provisions:

A few days after this rather bitter disillusion, an apprentice brought Christophe the following laconic little missive:-

Martial was striving to carry his plan into execution, when the following laconic epistle came to him one day through the post:

From an experiment with rich children here in Rome, we get the following laconic description: The greatest difficulty was the question of discipline.

And the feudalism which had existed in Japan for over eight centuries was abolished by the following laconic imperial decree of August, 1871:

The following laconic and characteristic order was issued by the First Consul to Lannes and Murat: Gather your forces at the river Stradella.

In the night he sent a vessel, "silently through Hell Gate," to the Directors in Holland, with the following laconic dispatch.

At this the terrified baboo in charge of the telegraph instrument below sent the following laconic message to the Traffic Manager: Lion fighting with station.

This the major said by way of softening the fishmonger's generosity; but that honest-minded individual replied in the following laconic manner: Bin in Mexaki, eh?