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Definition of Brevities
1. brevity [n] - See also: brevity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brevities
Literary usage of Brevities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"THERAPEUTIC brevities. Under this title, the "Medical Age," Feb. 10, 1890,
publishes some excellent gleanings. From the "British Med. ..."
2. The Bookman (1897)
"BOOKMAN brevities. We have received from Messrs. Harper and Brothers two little
paper-covered plays, the first being A Previous ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"—brevities. BT CHRISTOPHER SHORT. SMALL FEET.—I passionately admire small feet—just
such feet, fair reader, as I dare be sworn belong to thee—encased in a ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"... at a reasonable price, and in comparative abundance. — Amer. Jour. Science,
July, 1870. CHEMICAL brevities. Preparation of Anthracene. ..."
5. The Port and City of Philadelphia by Frank Hamilton Taylor, Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1912)
"Industrial brevities The largest single industry of the city is the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, which gives employment to 12000 to 15000 men and turns out ..."
6. The Ohio Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1857)
"brevities. tt?" Theodore Hook once said to a literary man, at whose table his
publisher hal become intoxicated, " My dear sir, you s«em to have emptied your ..."
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