Stevens tersely reported what he had learned, concluding: "So you see, you don't need special computers on these ships any more than a hen needs teeth.
The four men told their stories tersely and rapidly, while the others listened in deep attention.
That is to say, I fully agree with the almost unanimous voice of philological authority on this matter, which may be tersely expressed by allowing Professor Whitney to act as spokesman.
Or, as Geiger tersely says:—“In enzelnen Fällen ist die Entstehung von Gattungsbegriffe aus Mangel an Unterscheidung gleichwohl kaum zu bezweifeln.
Nay, I doubt whether Max Müller himself would disagree with Geiger where the latter tersely says, in a passage hitherto unquoted, “Why is it that the further we trace words backwards the less meaning do they present?
The case for nature against urbanity could not be more tersely nor better put.
As Canon Farrar has tersely written, "Unless the 'we remember' was a distinct falsehood, they could have been referring to no other occasion than this.
The position of our Church, as held by all her great theologians, is tersely and clearly expressed in the words, "Not the absence but the contempt of the sacrament condemns.
That boy expressed about as clearly and tersely as could well be done, the popular sentiment of the day.
But notwithstanding the acclaim with which this definition was hailed, I question that it was any improvement on that of Aristotle, who tersely defined justice as "that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
This sentiment was tersely and well expressed in the French Declaration of Rights of 1795.
The rapidly occuring events of the civil war, with much of their secret history, are tersely and graphically described.
It is no mere collection of receipts, but a complete and common-sense treatise on the whole science of housekeeping, tersely and clearly written, with a flavor of experience about it that makes one accept it as authoritative.
As one of them tersely put it to the agent, "We were a parcel of bloody fools, and you ought to have told us these Sub-Commissioners were coming!
As he tersely puts it, he sees "no hope in Irish politics, except a reformation of the League, a return to the principles of Thomas Davis.
The true character of the Roman judge of Jesus is thus very tersely given by Dr.
Innes thus tersely and forcibly states the proposition: "Whether it was legitimate or not for the Jews to condemn for a capital crime, on this occasion they did so.
Bosnian tersely said, "they lie as close together as it is possible to be crowded.
And Solon Robinson reported tersely from a rice plantation that the negroes plied their hoes "at so slow a rate, the motion would have given a quick-working Yankee convulsions.
But he could and did write terselyenough on occasion.
And in the year 1741, five years after the issue of the Analogy and seven before the issue of Hume's Essay on Miracles, we find the thesis of that essay tersely affirmed in a note to Book II of an anonymous translation (ascribed to T.
These words of Sir Arthur Helps put very tersely the point on which we have been insisting.
The power which the mind has over the body and the body over the mind has been well and tersely described by a writer of our time.
He quickly called an end to it, told them tersely that he would let them know when the next meeting would be and then before anyone else moved, he left the room.
The knight drew aside, and letting his men tramp by, he gave tersely the tale of the fight as he had seen it from King Nentres's lines.
From somewhere came a gruff voice, speaking tersely and in bated tones.
The dark sky seemed to hold out two scrolls to him tersely illumined as to the near future.
It was tersely expressed by Alexander von Humboldt in the phrase: "The history of the world is the mere expression of a predetermined, that is, fixed, evolution.
As an American historian has tersely put it, "The facts relating to successive phases of human thought constitute History.
Rabbi Wise, in "The Martyrdom of Jesus," has very tersely stated the Jewish position on the subject.
Thus tersely is the account of the first engagement of the war rendered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tersely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: briefly; curtly; inborn; pointedly; shortly; summarily
