| 1. | "It is sold, sir," was again his laconic reply. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | A slight frown and a laconic "Yes," were the answer. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Only he grew colder and colder laconic at meals, and rare in the house. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them he had felt their importance in the family circle. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 5. | Lockwood and at the period of which I speak, he was just the same as then only fonder of continued solitude, and perhaps still more laconic in company. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narratio. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |