The damsels wear nothing but flowers and their compendious gala tunics; and when they plume themselves for the dance, they look like a band of olive-coloured Sylphides on the point of taking wing.

I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra.

It will be my aim to remove the obstacles from your progress in as compendious a manner as it can be done, without sacrificing utility to despatch.

It was a sort of hand-book for women with grievances (and all women had them), a sort of compendious theory and practice of feminine free morality.

Pullet entered crying, as a compendious mode, at all times, of expressing what were her views of life in general, and what, in brief, were the opinions she held concerning the particular case before her.

This title refers to itself as a " compendious " reference guide, and that is correct.

From the use of biplanes in China to supporting the Second Nicaraguan Campaign in 1927 to F/A-18s dropping ordinance in the Persian Gulf War, the Marine Corps' airpower has come a long way, and the compendious collection of these stories and analyses in 176 pages rewards the time investment.

Merriam-Webster is the modern incarnation of a 187-year-old company that first published Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

al-Khw?rizm?, who wrote a treatise entitled "Kitab al-Jabr I-Mugabala," or "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing." His revolutionary insights into a mathematics based on numbers rather than shapes (geometry in the Greek tradition) transformed how scholars approached arithmetic and paved the way for modern mathematics.

The compendious , full timbres form ever more thickening clouds of fatefulness, with the flow now and then broken by an intense pizzicato or cluster.

Klossner's compendious volume is an impressive text and will undoubtedly prove a valuable resource for scholars of historical film.