"Brusquely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brusquely, if not uncourteously, extended, comes from a man of middle age, in height at least six feet three, without reckoning the thick soles of his bull-skin boots—the tops of which rise several inches above the knee. A personage, rawboned, and of rough exterior, wearing a ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... will find you will have to consider it," she returned brusquely, with a curious glance at me "But we do not need to spoil our ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... after dinner the First Consul ascended to Josephine's apartments, where he usually received the visits of the ministers, and particularly that of the minister of foreign affairs, M. de Talleyrand. At midnight, sometimes earlier, but never later, he gave the signal for retiring by saying, brusquely: "Let us go ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... smooth, elastic surface with big jets of water. Christopher went slowly by with an eye on his handiwork. He fancied he saw a small defect at a turn and stopped to examine it. An indignant worker told him brusquely he needn't try to pick holes in their roads because there weren't any, and Christopher returned meekly he thought they looked good, but fancied the mark ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... Washington by a night train; we might have taken a day train, but it was pointed out to me that I ought to get into "form" for certain projected long journeys into the West. At midnight I was brusquely introduced to the American sleeping-car. I confess that I had not imagined anything so appalling as the confined, stifling, malodorous promiscuity of the American sleeping-car, where men and women are herded together on shelves ...
— Your United States - Impressions of a first visit • Arnold Bennett
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