His smile a little twisted, Caesar screwed the short missive into a ball and tossed it among the coals on the brazier.

He broke the seal and extracted the short missive written on a heavy cream-colored paper, a paper more like parchment, but paper nonetheless.

When Marius finished reading Saturninus's short missive, he sat frowning for a long time.

Mykel read through the short missive once again, nodding as he did before handing the dispatch to the senior quad leader.

Lucinda frowned as she read the short missive, then, grimacing, laid it aside.

They are text messagers, a rapidly growing breed who use the cellphone to tap out and send short electronic missives.

They were short missives to her teammates, sent before big meets.

Even Vogue mice become divas, as a short missive lingering one morning by the fax machine would attest.

The magazine's running sections, in print and on its website, are Dispatches (short missives evoking a particular place and edited by Hannah Gersen), Reviews, and Features.

However, Weisberg created long letters when Lincoln had usually written shorter, punctual missives.