William Walton proposed that each variation include a brief quotation from another work by the same composer.

But perhaps a few brief quotations may give some idea of the jungle through which he has hacked his way.

Only two brief quotations of this letter have been preserved.

These decorate the doors and ceiling - not continuously but as brief quotations.

He then gave the title of, and made brief quotations from, "O that will be glory."

Each single shot scene is prefaced by a scene-setting intertitle and a brief quotation from the text.

In each case we get only disconnected snippets, brief quotations, tantalizing hints.

The score includes a brief literary quotation at the start of each movement.

It was the inscription inside my ring, a brief quotation from a love song by Catullus.

The lost portions are known of only through references and brief quotations in the later works, primarily from the 9th to 11th centuries.