The verbal precis of the only witness, given from memory, about a man who galloped away on horseback, threw no light at all on the case; so, because he could think of nothing better to do at the moment, the risaldar-major sent for a tikka- gharri and drove down to the morgue to identify the body.
"Winds of the World"
Talbot Mundy
The article did not commend itself to him, save as the means of making a precis of the case.
"The Secret Passage"
Fergus Hume
But they woke me gently, with a computer-generated precis of the events of the missing interval, and a counselor contacted me daily for a year until I felt at home again in my skin.
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
Cory Doctorow