1 And then pain and more pain and the room full of buzzing voices and Aunt Pittypat's sobs and Dr. Meade's brusque orders and feet that hurried on the stairs and tiptoes in the upper hall.
2 She impulsively invited the Dillons to the dramatic association meeting, and when Kennicott was brusque to them she was unusually cordial, and felt virtuous.
3 He circled her waist with a brusque arm.
4 Any mention of her 'works' always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now.'
5 I'm very stupid about studying anything, can't bear French, it's such a slippery, silly sort of language, was the brusque reply.
6 She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the door, which closed behind her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS 7 He was conscious that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 8 And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass.
9 "I said a doctor," he answered brusquely and his eyes unconsciously went over her tiny frame.
10 She began asking questions so brusquely and giving orders so decisively Pork's eyebrows went up in mystification.
11 But she saw or she imagined that the women who had gurgled at her so welcomingly when she had first come to Gopher Prairie were nodding at her brusquely.
12 He was no more brusquely familiar than a dozen other clerks of the town, but her nerves were heat-scorched.
13 I have no time for trifles," he answered, brusquely; then with a smile, "Excuse my rudeness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 14 That his advances should be rejected so brusquely without any reference to the lady's own wishes and that the lady should accept the situation without protest is very amazing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 15 There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...