The brief message did not take either of them by surprise.

He read the brief message, and thought for a while.

The other officers present had also read the brief message.

I only knew he was gone by a brief message on my phone machine.

The most we have gotten from them are brief messages.

I spent much of the day slowly getting a brief message across.

After reading her brief message, she added one more line at the end.

She kept reading the brief message that was written on it.

On it was her phone number and a brief message.

He thought about the brief message from his nephew and looked at it again.