He writes sensibly, acutely, Epigrammatically; but there is a vile complacency about it all, an underlying assumption that every one who does not agree with him in the smallest particular is necessarily a fool-a sense that he feels that he has gone into the merits of a book, and that there is exactly as much and as little in it as he tells you.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Like every one else in Rome, by this time, Miss Blanchard had an opinion on the young girl's beauty, and, in her own fashion, she expressed it Epigrammatically.
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
"Fact is always like fiction," said Jennings Epigrammatically, "however, we've got a confession from Clancy about the other factories.
"The Secret Passage"
Fergus Hume