Even in attempted description of the man, the intelligence officer grew vague, and Boone did not press him for a greater explicitness.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
That there was a mistake somewhere or other cannot be doubted, though whether it arose from want of explicitness in the directions given to Mr. Mandeville or from want of comprehension on his part no one is in a position to decide, except those who have seen them.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines
She felt that she had been almost brutal in her direct explicitness, called forth at the moment by an instinct that he would proceed to extreme measures unless peremptorily checked.
"The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers"
Mary Cholmondeley