more concise

"You must be more concise," said Miss Barrington; quietly, and Dane trifled with the hat in his hand.

The civilians were still more concise: what they offered being more in the nature of a decree——than a dispute.

And is not all this due to the fact that such words sound more scholastic or else more concise or accurate?

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.

Moreover, a tendency to amplitude of language may be noticed here and there in some of the more concise narratives.