bruskness

• “For, despite Mrs. Henry Sherwood's bruskness and masculine appearance,”

  Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret

• “There they are -- waiting for you on the porch," he said, rather subdued it would seem by her bruskness.”

  Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

• “I feel that we have exhausted this subject," answered the Millionaire with the bruskness of a man whose nerves have worn thin; with the menace, too, of one who, having divorced his first wife, would divorce the second on small provocation.”

  Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

• “Winn was there for her, just as he had been on the Schatz Alp; his eyes looked the same, and the intentional bruskness which he put into his voice was quite insufficient to hide its eagerness.”

  The Dark Tower

• “On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart.”

  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great

• “Within a week there was a deep line between Philip's brows and a return to some of his original bruskness of speech and manner.”

  The Course of True Love: Kentucky Mountain Sketch

• “Flint had been direct and business-like almost to the point of bruskness.”

  The Blood Red Dawn

• “No," with a bruskness which was startling by comparison with her cheeriness upstairs.”

  The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix

• “Quite right!" said Dion, with firmness, almost with bruskness.”

  In the Wilderness

• “He was totally unaware of the bruskness of such a question asked of a woman whom he had never seen before.”

  In the Wilderness

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