"Pithily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the third affair so concisely and pithily that his exact words must be put before the reader:—"Another proposition came to his lordship," writes the fraternal biographer, giving Francis North credit for the title he subsequently won, although at the time under ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... on, in the regular line of promotion, my dear sir," pithily inquired Captain Truck, "to what preferment would you have ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... Moffat pithily observes, "The meeting broke up, and they left us, no doubt fully impressed with the idea that ...
— Robert Moffat - The Missionary Hero of Kuruman • David J. Deane
... Gloucester says pithily of William, "Kyng Wylliam was to mild men debonnere ynou."—HEARNE, ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Mr. Booth has pithily characterized certain benevolent schemes as doing sixpennyworth of good and a shilling's worth of harm. I grieve to say that, in my opinion, the definition exactly fits his own project. Few social evils are of greater magnitude than uninstructed ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... think, exclusively Scotch. It very briefly but pithily applies to those who, while anxiously correcting trifling errors, allow greater ones to pass unheeded: who strain at gnats, ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop |
