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Briefly

adverb

For a short time. "Was briefly associated with IBM"

In a concise manner; in a few words. Synonyms: concisely, in brief, in short, shortly. "She replied briefly" , "Briefly, we have a problem" , "To put it shortly"

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"Briefly" Quotes from Famous Books

... simplistic design than that of the Arte. As a consequence Collado found it necessary to assemble his data from various sections of Rodriguez' description. In the paragraphs which follow we will briefly sketch the structural ...

— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... out to be a mere spur of immeasurably higher ranges when, by failing breath, they reach the top. But if I may speak of the objects I have had more or less definitely in view since I began the ascent of my hillock, they are briefly these: To promote the increase of natural knowledge and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life to the best of my ability, in the conviction which has grown with my growth ...

— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... the Doctor arose from his chair, repeated his directions briefly and clearly, and departed from the room without permitting Silas any ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... by an elevated and excited spirit of philosophy. Those who cultivated, those who patronized, and those who advanced it, are celebrated, and the events of their lives and the nature of their services are briefly related. The operations of the mind which are essential to its progress are touched upon. The intense labor and peculiar intellectual qualifications incident to and required for its successful pursuit are intimated. Nor are ...

— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... or conjectural speculations are admitted, they are frankly described as such; and that the more important differences of opinion which actually divide astronomers, geologists, biologists, and anthropologists are carefully taken into account and briefly explained. A few English and American works are recommended for the convenience of those who would study particular chapters more closely, but it has seemed useless, in such a work, to give a bibliography of the hundreds of English, ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

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