bruskly

• “The poetic affect of the music would waver in the air uncertainly as he bruskly complained and put the German violin in its case.”

  Fictionaut: The Illuminated Dream

• “Eve, Dick chanted on, drawing Paula bruskly closer to his side with a semblance of savage roughness.”

  CHAPTER X

• ““Let none pass in here without authority — and let none pass out unless I accompany them,” he ordered bruskly.”

  The Moon Pool

• “I turned to Drake bruskly to smother the sob of sheer happiness I felt rising in my throat; and at his wink and warning grimace abruptly forebore to press the question.”

  The Metal Monster

• “A young man rose very bruskly and asked if there was any one he would like to see.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “QX, Wainwright, go ahead," Kinnison directed bruskly when, alone with the escorting Patrol officers in a shielded car, he was being taken to the Capitol grounds.”

  Children of the Lens

• “That's all right for to-morrow," declared Jennie bruskly.”

  Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies

• “You are inclined to be saucy," bruskly rejoined Aunt Euphemia.”

  Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper

• “Nothing ever happens to kids like her," said Ann, bruskly.”

  Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund

• “You should say ` First Lensman Samms '," Kinnison said bruskly.”

  First Lensman

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