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• When the wind is brisk, and we are going fast through the water, then we drift but little, not more perhaps than one mile to six or seven But why is that, father? —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
• Life in this Amazonian city is dull enough: commerce is not brisk, and society is stiff; balls are about the only amusements. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• No! Mrs. Alwynn was cheerful, brisk, and pious at intervals. —  The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
• His Patient was as brisk, active and gay, as One in the Bloom of his Youth Now, Sir, said Zadig_, I'll be ingenuous with you, and disclose to you the important Secret. —  Zadig Or, The Book of Fate
• His step was brisk, his brow was dark and his boots creaked ominously. —  A Cigarette-Maker's Romance

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