Briefness

Here is a summary of the Sunday Round 17 games, please excuse the "briefness" of the resumes as I have just got in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And might well have drowned in this drink of men -- I who had never known a mother's breast in the briefness of time I had lived -- had it not been for Lingaard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lightly indeed his flesh sat upon his soul, and his soul, in its briefness of clarity, knew by its very clarity that the black of cessation was near. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was nervous, tingling work, for as surely as I sensed his intention of briefness, just as surely had he sensed mine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the briefness of that window is the primary reason they were doomed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problem with my post's briefness on that is that I really did not go into the semantics of the issue - you cover a lot of it, but perhaps due to the brevity of my post, some things were not communicated clearly (or at all). ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

At a time like this, we all are reminded of the briefness of life and the importance of being ready for our eternal destination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Currently most large internet systems are written in Java, which is not exactly famous for its briefness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And so, in the human City, they have turned away from the vast and eternal beauty of the Wild Magic to a simpler, more immediate, more selfish magic better suited to the briefness of their lives. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Thank you to the editors of Cerise Press -- that be Sally Molini, Karen Rigby, Greta Aart -- for nominating SILK EGG, my mischievous prose poem-turned-novel and now turned-short story for its briefness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The directional signal would not work for anything less—might not work even so, given the briefness of contact and the division of heart she had permitted. ❋ SONDRA MARSHAK (2009)

Thus, the briefness of human life­ spans and even of human history compared with the age of the universe may simply be a matter of physical necessity, given the developmental way that God seems to prefer to work. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With briefness and precision he wrote and dictated various letters to different barons, acquainting them with the meditated invasion of the ❋ Unknown (2008)

The adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those personages who distinguish themselves during some single and extraordinarily brilliant period of their lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the brilliancy of its splendour. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ewart took the whole direction upon himself, gave his orders with briefness and precision, and looked to their being executed with the silence and celerity which that peculiar crisis required. ❋ Unknown (2008)