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Pithily   Listen
adverb
Pithily  adv.  In a pithy manner.





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"Pithily" Quotes from Famous Books



... preserved in Denmark, two in Hamburg, one had perhaps already wandered southward to Leyden, and one as far as Vienna. Dr. Storm, therefore, feels sure that Columbus never saw Adam's mention of Vinland, and pithily adds that "had Columbus known it, it would not have been able to show him the way to the West Indies, but perhaps to the North Pole."[473] From the account of this mention and its context, which I have already given,[474] it is in the highest degree improbable ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
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Words linked to "Pithily" :   sententiously, pithy


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