"Brusk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was beautiful and eloquent; much too high-bred to put a restraint upon her natural manner, she was often more naive, and even brusk, than your would-be aristocrats dare to be; but what a charming ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... the table: "I am told you are short of cash. These ten thousand crowns will be more useful to you than to me. I don't know what to do with them. You can give me them back when you have recovered what has been stolen from you." Having uttered these few brusk words, he turned and hurried away. Later we shall meet with a younger General de Pommereul, to whom the novelist dedicated his Melmoth Reconciled, adding, "In remembrance of the constant friendship that united our fathers ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... those points at Delgratz," declared the brusk Stampoff. "You will bring the money, half in gold, to the station?" ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... the jealousy of what lay beyond, he was about to continue, she laid her fingers on his lips, with a little brusk, nervous movement of ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... company from us mighty brusk," grinned Frenchy. "We drifted in with the tide. Mr. Mudge took a line ashore—Oh, boy! he's some swimmer. So we followed him along the line, hand ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson |
