"Curt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sewall's displeasure in every sentence of that curt little note. If I had been nursing the hope for understanding from my old employer, it was dead within me now. The letter cut me ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... elaborate farewell was curt and somewhat crusty. "Had they known," said the states' envoys, "that their transparencies and worthinesses had no better intention, and the Duke of Terranova no ampler commission, the whole matter might have been despatched, not in six ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... the doorway as the full aroma of the place smote him, now entered at the curt suggestion of Sondheim, but ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... he could chat. The stranger's name was Etienne Lousteau. Two years ago he had left his native place, a town in Berri, just as Lucien had come from Angouleme. His lively gestures, bright eyes, and occasionally curt speech revealed a bitter apprenticeship to literature. Etienne had come from Sancerre with his tragedy in his pocket, drawn to Paris by the same motives that impelled Lucien—hope of fame and ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... the curtains over every chink, and hung a shawl over the end of Pat's bed to still further screen him from draughts, but Pat was not in the mood to be coddled, and had that shawl whisked to the ground before one could say Jack Robinson. He was curt and silent in his manner, and—rare and significant sign!—partook of a fragmentary tea. Nothing was right; everything was wrong; his patience was exhausted, and though he remained studiously polite to his ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
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