"Prolixity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... This exploit of Hanuman is related with inordinate prolixity in the Bengal recension (Gortesio's text). Among other adventures he narrowly escapes being shot by Bharat as he passes over Nandigrama near Ayodhya. Hanuman stays Bharat in time, and gives him an account of what has befallen Rama ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... at once the class of navigation to which it was dedicated. It was a Sicilian schooner from Trapani, built for fishing. An artistic calker had sculptured a wooden cray-fish climbing over the rudder. From the two sides of the prow dangled a double row of cray-fish carved with the innocent prolixity of medieval imagination. ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Release for you,—'tis the very Thing, Man;—only with this small Difference,— and in which consists the whole Strength of the Panegyric, That the Author of the Romance has convey'd and re-convey'd, in about ten Lines, —what you, with the glorious Prolixity of the Law, could not have crowded into as ...
— A Political Romance • Laurence Sterne
... the two brothers, the accountant Francisco Beltran de Manurga and the inspector Matias Beltran de Manurga. Either of them is, in my opinion, a person as capable as is necessary for the said offices, as well as for things of more importance. I entreat your Majesty to pardon my prolixity in matters in which you have not asked my advice; for my zeal and desire for your royal service, and also for some one who may aid me therein, obliges me to ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various
... his word with me; so mounted upon a strong hackney, I set out with Power on the road to Brussels. I have had occasion more than once to ask pardon of my reader for the prolixity of my narrative, so I shall not trespass on him here by the detail of our conversation as we jogged along. Of me and my adventures he already knows enough—perhaps too much. My friend Power's career, abounding as it did in striking incidents, and all the light and ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
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