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She went on stitching quietly. Her hands looked very contented. Dion drew up a little nearer to the fire with a movement that was rather brusk. It just struck him that his walk home in the driving sleet had decidedly chilled his body. "I believe I know what you mean about Beattie," he said, after a pause, looking into the fire. "But do you think that would be fair to Guy?"
"I confess," in an even, emotionless voice, "your lordship's complaisance amazes me." "And you would have accepted the alternative?" The nobleman's accents were now those of the service, diplomatic; they were concise but measured. "Why discuss what could never have been considered?" was the brusk answer. Lord Ronsdale frowned. "We are still fencing; we will waste no more time."
Then she 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 abruptness hers was! I do not excel in descriptions, and yet I want to give you some carnal idea of a certain peculiarity and charm this lady possessed; permit me to call a sister art to my aid.
Lady Ingleton did not look surprised on receiving this brusk negative. "Shall I get Carey to see him first?" she asked, in her lazy voice. "Cyril Vane has prepared the way before him, and Carey is all sympathy and readiness to do what he can. The Greek tragedy of the situation appeals to him tremendously, and of course he has a hundredfold more tact than I have." "Mr. Leith must go to the Embassy.
K. B. Horsfal was in ecstasies, if a two-hundred-pound, keen, brusk, American business man ever allows himself such liberties. Nothing would please him but that we should go another round, just to test out his new acquisition and give him the hang of the thing. To his supreme satisfaction, although I again beat him by the same small margin, he reduced his score for the round by eight strokes.
Give us the particulars." "Why, when you fellers went off and left us without sayin' 'by your leave, even " "What's that?" growled Whistler. "You know that hawser snapped." "Just the same you parted 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 over hand "
He came in so frequently at luncheon-time, and became so familiar with the ladies, that they did not even hesitate to quarrel before him: and Lady Clavering, whose tongue was loud, and temper brusk, had many a battle with the Sylphide in the family friend's presence.
"One minute, Harnwicke!" he gasped, falling upon the first member of the corporations' lobby he could identify in the throng. "What's been done?" "They've taken a fall out of us," was the brusk reply. "House Bill Twenty-nine was reported by the committee on judiciary and rushed through after you left. It was as neat a piece of gag-work as I ever hope to see if I live to be a hundred."
It swept over Thorwaldsen, like a winter's wave, that this big, brusk, bizarre woman before him was Maria Louisa, the second wife of Napoleon.
Restaurant, for example, is generally pronounced as though its second syllable rhymed with 'law', and its third with 'pant'. Trait is pronounced in accordance with its English spelling, and therefore very few Americans have ever discovered the pun in the title of Dr. Charade like marmalade rhymes with made. Brusk seems to be supplanting brusque as risky is supplanting risqué.
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