Scrawled on an enclosed note was the terse warning: "Flee or die!"

The next day, Mr. Williams called Mr. Lott's office, expressing his outrage with a terse warning: "There's a storm brewing."

Cyra's terse warning had left him afraid of a trap, but he had to do something about the tachyon compass.

Despite the terse warning, which an immigration officer read to Mr. Li at the airport, officials said he would probably be allowed to return to his teaching position.

BT SECRET It took the President less than a minute to read the terse warning through twice.

Under the accord, each network will be free to decide for itself whether to impose the terse, eight-word warning: "Due to some violent content, parental discretion advised."

In his remarks, General Ozkok alluded to those concerns, and sent a terse warning to the Kurds of northern Iraq.

The terse public warning by the F.B.I. gave no information about the scope or nature of the threat, nor where it might occur.

He told of the coming of Balinor with his terse warning, of their narrow escape from the black Skull creature, and finally of their flight to the highlands.

Included was the terse warning that Terle was a teleport.