He paused, and my desire to stay was increased a thousandfold by the sense of mystery his laconic words seemed to evoke.

Saddam Hussein uttered only two laconic words - "Well done!"

'Americal' Battle turned to Isaacteln with one laconic word: 'Oil?'

He had been rung up on the telephone by George Arbuthnot who, in a few laconic words, told him that all had gone well.

He stared at her as though he fathomed the melancholy in her laconic words.

It was allegedly answered with a single laconic word: όχι (No!)

These people give new ' ",'Meaning to the word laconic."

Jude did not pause to remember that, in the laconic words of the historian, "insulted Nature sometimes vindicated her rights" in such circumstances.

After several of them, only the laconic words of a fur-clad shepherd passing in the mist with his dogs made me get up again.

The laconic careless words weren't important.