All 18 Uses of
brief
in
The Two Towers
- Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have _made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness.†
Chpt 4.3 *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- There in the still cool hour before dawn they rested for a brief space.†
Chpt 3.2
- Only twice in the day's march had they rested for a brief while, and twelve leagues now lay between them and the eastern wall where they had stood at dawn.†
Chpt 3.2
- He seemed to have grown in stature while Eomer had shrunk; and in his living face they caught a brief vision of the power and majesty of the kings of stone.†
Chpt 3.2
- As he stepped up on to the shelf there was a gleam, too brief for certainty, a quick glint of white, as if some garment shrouded by the grey rags had been for an instant revealed The intake of Gimli's breath could be heard as a loud hiss in the silence.†
Chpt 3.5
- This in brief is how I see things at the moment, if you wish to have a piece of my mind as plain as possible.†
Chpt 3.5
- Naked I was sent back — for a brief time, until my task is done.†
Chpt 3.5 *
- The sortie upon the Rock gained only a brief respite.†
Chpt 3.7
- Aye indeed, they would pay pure gold for a brief glance!†
Chpt 3.8
- And glad shall I be to see it again,' said Theoden, 'though brief now, I doubt not, shall be my abiding there.†
Chpt 3.8
- He heard Gandalf singing softly to himself, murmuring brief snatches of rhyme in many tongues, as the miles ran under them.†
Chpt 3.11
- So after a brief rest they set out again and were soon lost in a shadowy silent world, cut off from all view of the lands about, either the hills that they had left or the mountains that they sought.†
Chpt 4.2
- Before the shadows of evening were long in happier lands, they went on again, always on and on with only brief halts.†
Chpt 4.2
- Even so, I spare a brief time, in order to judge justly in a hard matter.†
Chpt 4.5
- Once, looking suddenly back, as if some prickle of the skin told him that he was watched from behind, he thought he caught a brief glimpse of a small dark shape slipping behind a tree-trunk.†
Chpt 4.5
- There was a brief silver glint, and a swirl of tiny ripples.†
Chpt 4.6
- The brief glow fell upon a huge sitting figure, still and solemn as the great stone kings of Argonath.†
Chpt 4.7
- And then suddenly the brief glimpse was gone.†
Chpt 4.7
Definitions:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).
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(brief as in: briefed her) to give a summary of important information to someone