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Taciturnity Barkis warmhearted but taciturn husband of Peggoty. [Br. Lit: David Copperfield] prefer not to” was his constant refrain and all he ever said. [Am. Lit.: “Bartleby the Scrivener”] taciturn “down-Easterners.” [Am. Culture: Misc.] (1872–1933) 30th U.S. president; nicknamed “Silent Cal.” [Am. Hist.: Frank, 99] inhabitant of ancient country of Laconia; people noted for pauciloquy. [Gr. Hist.: NCE, 1514] |
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Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish ease; or perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his life in the pursuit of that which was not worth the finding. The captain's natural taciturnity he distorted into a studied attempt to insult him because of his past shortcomings. His companion seemed to have abandoned, for the time at any rate, his habit of taciturnity. |
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