The Junker, in the latter place, rendered themselves especially ridiculous by the innumerable offices and chambers in which they transacted their useless and prolix affairs.
Cranmer, to remedy this evil, attempted to gradually reduce the number to ten, which was petitioned against as insufficient and tending to "delays and prolix suits.
He hated vice and honoured virtue, but he is too oftenprolix and wearisome.
With deliberate malice I loaded a prolix narrative with every triviality that a fairly retentive memory could rake out of the half-forgotten past.
We will have some coffee to clear our brains, and then I will bespeak your patience for what may seem like a rather prolix demonstration.
I shall be able, when I see you, to divert you with some excellent stories of a principal figure on our side; but they are too long and too many for a letter, especially of a letter so prolix as this.
Cr`ebillon is entirely out of fashion, and Marivaux a proverb: marivauder and marivaudage are established terms for being prolix and tiresome.
He is at once vain and obsequious, servile and spiteful, professing candor and practising adulation, prolix and prosaic.
The critical reader is perhaps by this time become so far interested in this subject as to excuse a more prolix elucidation of it.
Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar.
I shall, therefore, very likely be too long and prolix in my narrative of a friendship, which folk are quite at liberty to call love if they like.
But there is little doubt that he was diligent in collecting and careful in recording his facts, and his extreme minuteness often supplies gaps in less prolix chroniclers.
It is not our intention to weary the reader with prolix specimens; nevertheless, in corroboration of what we have asserted, we shall take the liberty of offering a few.
I have been already prolix with respect to these Gypsies, but I will not leave them quite yet.
Not to be prolix on this part of my life, I went night after night to balls and routs, for admission to which half the fine gentlemen in London would have given their ears.
Footnote 31: Dexippus gives them a subtle and prolix oration, worthy of a Grecian sophist.
Bouchaud, in his treatise de l'Impot chez les Romains, has transcribed this catalogue from the Digest, and attempts to illustrate it by a very prolix commentary.
By endeavoring to take in every thing, he descends to many trifles; and by dwelling too long on a subject, he comes to render it obscure, by being prolix in things which hardly relate to what he treats of.
It is not unfairly characterized by Symonds as 'a tissue of pastoral tales, descriptions, and versified interludes, prolix in style and affected with pedantic erudition.
But the preambles - sometimes a bit prolix - are written after the fashion prevailing among the rabbis of the time, in a complicated, pretentious style, often affecting the form of rhymed prose and always in a poetic jargon.
Not represented by so much printed matter now, but as prolix then, was the dispute on the question of Accounts.
Then follow comments on these regulations, and in vindication of them--exceedingly prolix on account of being full of citations, some timely and others the opposite.
It is a prolix and rather tedious examination of Grassi's Essay; nor do the arguments seem so satisfactory, nor the reasonings so compact as is generally the case in Galileo's other writings.
That is easy to see: First it gives us a very convenient terminology, which expresses concisely what the ordinary analytic language would say in prolix phrases.
Of the arrival of Clavileno; with the conclusion of this prolix adventure 313 LXXII.
Of the arrival of Clavileno; with the conclusion of this prolix adventure.
Most illustrious sovereign, your majesty may perhaps be surprised at my presumption in writing this prolix epistle, knowing, as I do, that your majesty is continually engaged in conducting the arduous affairs of government.
This Guicciardin is so very prolixand circumstantial in his writings, that I remember our countryman Dr.
I look upon a tedious talker, or what is generally known by the name of a story-teller, to be much more insufferable than even a prolix writer.
Basnage, with the prolixanswer of Cardinal Humbert.
