"'Pray,' said Mr. Peel, again returning to the charge, though certainly feeling not a little surprised at the singular laconicism of his informant, no less than the mellifluous tones of an accent then perfectly new to him.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
"Don't think," interrupted the other, who, when excited, affected laconicism, "know."
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green
It was at Chateau Thierry, on a day soon after the arrival of the 92nd Division in France, that Foch, the eminent generalissimo, but then an almost unknown quantity, again gave voice to laconicism: The offensive shall begin and shall continue.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller