"Brusquely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brusquely, his eyes riveted on the Security badge he'd been sure Trench had taken. "Yeah, I know. Your meal ticket was in danger. Okay, you've done your nightly duty. Now get the hell out of my room, ...
— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey
... DuQuesne ordered brusquely, holding her around the body so that her feet extended straight out in front of ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... your concerts for me," he said brusquely. "It would interfere too seriously with my own musical job of getting in tune with ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... a little taken aback, however, when Lottie, ashamed of her feeling, said brusquely, "As to gambling with cards, we no more thought of it than sending to a corner grocery for a bottle of whiskey, and taking from it a drink all around between ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... it easily from the outside. He felt in his pocket for it, jumped in his runabout, and hurried away. When he reached the New Arts Building he found Kennedy in the hall and dismissed him. "Thanks," he observed, brusquely. "I ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... or eight of us silent with admiration and gazing toward far-away Africa whither we were going. The commandant, who was smoking a cigar with us, brusquely resumed ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... better talk anymore," observed Phillis, somewhat brusquely: and then she exchanged meaning looks with Nan. The two girls were somewhat dismayed at their mother's wan looks; her feebleness and uncertainty of speech, the very vagueness of her lamentations, filled them with sad forebodings for the future. How were they to leave her, when they commenced that ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... brusquely, and went back into his study, which was situated behind the dining-room, on the ground-floor. Lesley looked after him helplessly, with a mingled feeling of offence and relief. She did not see him again, but was conveyed to her room by Miss Brooke, ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... he held her, but soon, almost brusquely, she repulsed him. "C'est folie, mon ami, folie! We lose our heads, we ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold
... on the list!" commanded Madden brusquely, with ill-concealed disgust that Smith should ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... said, "that I have spoken to you rather brusquely, for which I offer many apologies. It was due, perhaps, to the commercial rivalries of myself and Mr. Hardy, in whose house you are staying. It was but natural for me ...
— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Dollmann, and let them alone,' he said brusquely. 'You'll be horribly in the way down there, and we shall never get any supper if you keep ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... said?" she stammered. "Let me pass." And brusquely putting us aside with an imperious gesture, she went off with a rapid step, and disappeared ...
— Ten Tales • Francois Coppee
... cloud, dissolved the spell. Youth straightened up brusquely on its bench, rubbing enchantment ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... art from nature alone, chooses love as his theme for a trial song, and bursts forth into an impassioned and beautiful strain. But as his words and music are strictly original, and therefore cannot be judged by the usual canons, Beckmesser savagely marks down mistake after mistake, and brusquely interrupts the song to declare the singer is 'outsung and outdone.' In proof of this assertion he exhibits his slate, which is covered with bad marks. Hans Sachs, the only member present who has understood ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... sorry to say, is not physically able to answer your surprising and most disturbing letter, and has laid upon me the unpleasant task of doing so. It is, as you somewhat brusquely say, unnecessary to discuss at any length what you have done, since it is irrevocable. We can but feel, however, that a thing so hastily entered upon can be productive of no good (if, indeed, the matter has been as sudden as you lead us ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... Find Kennedy," he called back almost brusquely. "It's Miss Blanche Blaisdell, the actress—she's been found dead here. The thing is an absolute mystery. Now get him, ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... She snatched it rather brusquely from the other woman's hand and scanned it frowningly, her vivid red underlip caught between her teeth. Miss Clifford looked embarrassed. Esther moved unobtrusively across the room and examined the crystal lustres on ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... burned within him. He strode to the barn-yard fence, and, leaning over it, dropped Flopit rather brusquely at his mistress's feet. Then, without a word even without a look—William walked haughtily away, continuing his stern progress straight through the barn-yard gate, and thence onward until he found himself in solitude upon the far side of a smoke-house, ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... suddenly to his office on business," he said, brusquely. She turned and faced him. "You'd better put those papers in the safe. I'll take them back myself to-morrow. I can't see what possessed you to insist ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... from his seat, opened the door a little way, saw that the station was empty, and then said to the girl, brusquely, but kindly: ...
— The Denver Express - From "Belgravia" for January, 1884 • A. A. Hayes
... assigned to them at a Conference in the decisions of which their peoples were so intensely interested. The Canadian Minister, having spoken of the "proposal" of the Great Powers, was immediately corrected by M. Clemenceau, who brusquely said that it was not a proposal, but a decision, which was therefore definitive and final. Thereupon the Belgian delegate, M. Hymans, delivered a masterly speech, pleading for genuine discussion ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher, was in Richardson's division. They were a "free and easy" going crowd. General Richardson impressed me as a man of great determination and courage. He was a large, heavy man, dressed roughly and spoke and acted very brusquely. French (who commanded our division) was also thick-set, probably upwards of sixty years old, quite gray and with a very red face. He had an affection of the eyes which kept him winking or blinking constantly, ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... she was brusquely awakened. With no word of warning, the girl at her side had sprung to her feet and faced about. Into her face had come a look of unspeakable joy. Her lips were parted in excitement, and a sudden ...
— The Pines of Lory • John Ames Mitchell
... is short," I replied, rather brusquely. "I wish to know for what sum, cash down, you will terminate your ...
— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic
... still one more mistake to make, however, and she promptly made it, attempting to pass through the right-hand swing-door. But no! It was for season-ticket holders. She must go to the left. The middle door was for those coming out. A fat man, hurrying brusquely in before her, let the swing-door slam in her face. "Le joueur n'a ni politesse, ni sexe," was a proverb of the "Rooms" which Mary Grant had never heard, but would ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... I," returned Miss Lacey brusquely, "and if you imagine that I am going to climb up to this office and then leave it without seeing the judge you're mistaken. You might give me something to read if ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... arrive, excited anew, when at last it closed in on the world of snow and mountains, the celebrators once more gathered at the shop and lighted up their tree. The wind was rushing brusquely up the street; the snow began once more to fall. From the "Palace" saloon came the sounds of music, laughter, song, and revelry. Light streamed forth from the window in glowing invitation. All day long its flow of steaming ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels
... do, my man," said Foyle brusquely. "You know something which it is important I should know. Sir Ralph has told you to keep your mouth shut. But you're going to tell me before either of us leaves this room. I want you to speak now. Never mind about ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... Flint, brusquely. "We don't need any of your advice or suggestions, Herzog. As far as the disposal of the product is concerned, we can take care of that. All we want from you is the assurance that that product can be obtained, easily ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... himself spoke a few words. The little speech came brusquely from him, and no one who knew his rapacity for the beautiful could doubt his faith in the universal superlatives he now advocated. Our art, he held, must weigh with our mills and railroads, else our life is out of balance. We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... its uncanny burden, had passed along the sole street of the place, and several men had emerged from the Warrior Inn ostensibly to offer help, but really to know what the eccentric master of the great house was doing. Braddock brusquely rejected these offers; but the oddly shaped mummy case, stained green, having been seen, it needed little wit for those who had caught a sight of it to put two and two together, especially as the weird object had been described at the inquest and had been talked over ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... absolutely without evidence from this quarter. After speaking about La Chesnee's visits, he proceeded to denounce the base Mannourie and his miserable master Sir Lewis Stukely, yet without a word of unseemly invective. He then defended his actions in the Guiana voyage, and turning brusquely to the Earl of Arundel, appealed to him for evidence that the last words spoken between them as the 'Destiny' left the Thames were of Raleigh's return to England. This was to rebut the accusation that Raleigh had been overpowered ...
— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse
... and have your tea. John, leave Mary to carry up Joan's boxes; she will get Dick to help her; they are too heavy for you. Your uncle is getting old," she went on, talking brusquely as she helped Joan off with her coat, "he ...
— To Love • Margaret Peterson
... Phebe. "Good-night." He spoke almost brusquely, and went directly away, without offering his hand or looking at any ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... exclaimed the general brusquely, "what is the matter with you? You act as if you were at a funeral! Hans," turning to the orderly, "open the champagne there. Fill the glasses. Bumpers all, gentlemen, for the greatest inventor of all times, Herr von Heckmann, the inventor ...
— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train
... you what I think of you," I said brusquely, and, strangely enough, it seemed to please her. But I paid little attention to that, continuing quickly: "When Professor Keredec and Mr. Saffren came to Les Trois Pigeons, they were so careful to keep out of everybody's ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... known, the abolition of the ancien regime did not take place brusquely as in France. After the revolution and the French occupation, the noble caste recovered all its privileges. It has lost them little by little, but not yet entirely. Even the liquidation of the property of the feudal regime was ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... said brusquely. "I'll have you know that I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... the artist said brusquely; and then, as Olive obeyed him, "Don't be frightened. You are new, I see. You are so pink and white that I thought you were ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... felt the calm scrutiny of the woman's searching glances. He was now determined to take the whip hand, and to keep it. His accents were staccato as he said, "Tell me now who you are, and what you wish of me!" A clock, hung high over them on the dreary, drab walls, ticked away brusquely, as the angered woman gazed ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... advice," said Mrs Jefferson brusquely, "you won't try to see her, for it's my belief that she's not the woman any man can look at and forget, and you poets are ...
— The Mystery of a Turkish Bath • E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)
... that things run smoothly and without contradiction. In a more noble sense, manners and courtesy prescribe conduct in order to proscribe offense to the self-valuation of others. Convention says, "Address people as if they were your equals at least; don't contradict brusquely because that implies their inferiority or stupidity; avoid too controversial topics since bitterness and humiliation may thus arise; do not notice defects or disabilities for the same reason; do not brag or be too conspicuous, ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... course," he acquiesced brusquely. "She wanted you to have a good time. I have been away, too. Now that you are here I expect she will pick up, ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... himself brusquely between the victim and his persecutors. He took the dirty object away from the priest with scant ceremony, in spite of the whisper, "Infection!" and gave it back to the ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... and this she did, also—and then he almost brusquely placed her hand upon his arm, and led her among the people, and so to her frowning relations, and then he bowed a ...
— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn
... little bakers stood before Aun' Sheba with arms around each other while she indulged in reminiscences, then Ella, dashing away the tears that were gathering again, said brusquely, "The new hand will have to be boss if we go on this way. Aun' Sheba, we haven't got a blessed thing ready to put in ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... said Augusta, at last rising brusquely from her chair, "the document belongs to you, and so I suppose that you had better see it. Not that I think that it will be of much use to you, however, as I see that 'probate had been allowed to issue,' whatever that may mean, of ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard
... was lost and that timidity had overpowered shame. His own eyes at first held only scorn for such a poltroon attitude, but suddenly there leaped into them a fierce glow of tenderness, which he as quickly masked. At the end of his silent contemplation he brusquely demanded, "Well, Paul, how long is it going to take you to fill ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... the wind?" I brusquely demanded, forgetting that Tommy was rather particular about ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... progress which might possibly culminate in cake, had abandoned the idea of sleep and meant to see the thing through. He gambolled in Webster's wake up the stairs and along the passage leading to the latter's room, and only paused when the door was brusquely shut in his face. Upon which he sat down to think the thing over. He was in no hurry. The night was before him, promising, as far as he could judge from the way ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... he turned, thrust out to me an eager hand—and then I saw what was that difference that had so moved me. He knew, of course by my silence and involuntary shrinking the shock my closer look had given me. His eyes filled; he turned brusquely from the purser, hesitated—then hurried ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... they say," returned Leif brusquely. "Doubtless their thoughts interfere with their speech at present. And hark 'ee, all; as I said before, I desire to have no further talk at present on this point. Ye are welcome to tell whom ye please ...
— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne
... from his immobility, a hand withdrawn brusquely from the pocket of his overcoat, strode up to the woman, seized her by the arm from behind, saying in a rough commanding tone: "Come away, Eliza." In an instant the child saw them close together and remote, near the door, ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... all right," remarked Whitney brusquely. "Never mind that. Here's where some of our interests ...
— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve
... said almost brusquely, "enough of sentiment. We must dress for the levee. I can fit you out ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... a minute or two, but, finding the situation intolerably embarrassing, I rose, and brusquely excusing myself, went up to the laboratory to look for Polton and inquire at what time Thorndyke was expected home. To my surprise, however, on entering, I discovered Thorndyke himself just finishing the ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman
... not!" Iron Heart brusquely disposed of that suggestion. "The merest school-girl could pull wool over your eyes, if she cared to ...
— The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson
... being made of glass," she said brusquely; "you don't know anything about me, Mr. Morton. You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication. That's all your fine words amount to. Since I must keep up a reputation for telling the truth, I'm obliged ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... least fifty Dutch votes. But we were agreeably surprised, for the open air rang with the loud cheers and "Hoor, hoors"* from hundreds of leather-lunged Boers. One old farmer turned round to Tommy — the blackest Native in the crowd — held him by the shoulders, and shouted as brusquely as his tongue could bend to ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... go below!" said the first mate brusquely, while Spokeshave sniggered and whispered something to the lamp-trimmer and man at the wheel that made them both laugh out right. "There's something wrong with you to-night, Haldane, for you seem quite off your chump, so you'd better go below and sleep it off. There's no ship ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... parting; each avoided all subjects that pointed in direction of the one subject of which both thought whenever their minds left the immediate present. As the little clock on the mantle began to intimate in a faint, polite voice the quarter before eleven, he said abruptly, almost brusquely: ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
... the force of the sentence thus italicized? It was Austria which was the provocative factor. It was then bombarding Belgrade and endeavoring to cross the Danube into Servia. It had declared war, and brusquely refused even to discuss the question with Russia. It was mobilizing its army, and making every effort to make a speedy subjugation of Servia. If peace was to be preserved, the pressure must begin with Austria. If any ...
— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck
... 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 red blanket-coat; his trousers ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... he said brusquely. "So far, so good. Make yourself comfortable. Have a glass of wine and settle ...
— Little Lord Fauntleroy • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... my hat," she said brusquely. "I don't intend to stay unless there is the reason which I expected and which induced me to come here. Have you seen that remarkable-looking ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... keenly at him, and replied more brusquely than he felt: "Do you think it fair to stay—fair ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... all," Egil interrupted brusquely. "The English girl is coming aft. It is likely she ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... to him not without a certain interest. They also begin to dream ... they dream of a free country, from which they are separated by an enormous stretch of land, a country that they can hardly conceive. One of them brusquely interrupts the dreams of the vagabond: "That's all right, brother, you'll never get to that enchanted land. How are you going to get there? You are going to travel 300 versts and then you'll give your soul up to God. You are already almost gone." And then, ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky
... passed the place when her maid's (or companion's) square figure filled the open doorway of my compartment, and in her strong deep voice she addressed a brief summons to me brusquely and peremptorily: ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... the young man demanded brusquely. Evidently he had no curiosity about Samuel's presence; the one thing that struck him was that Samuel was ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... as to the extension of the civil service, and reiterated in the President's own speeches in the United States Senate, he in a playful way referred to the conduct of certain officials in Buffalo, when the President interrupted him, as it seemed to me at the time very brusquely and even rudely saying: "Mr. Rogers, you have no right to impute evil motives to any man. The motives of these gentlemen to whom you refer are presumably as good as your own. An argument based upon such imputations cannot advance the cause ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... the door, a fresh interruption. This time it is surely serious. A young, lovely society woman enters. She has been his love for the week, the understanding being that the affair is to terminate as it began, brusquely, without arriere-pensee. But she loves Gerardo. She clamours to be taken to Brussels. She will desert husband, children, social position, she will ruin her future to be with the man she adores. She is mad with the despair of parting. He ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... why," answered the other brusquely, and he walked ahead, frowning, until they reached an imposing entrance with stately palms on the white stone floor and the glimpse ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... I, brusquely. "But I come to you to get that hen-coop out of my head, not to be reminded of it. Everybody asks me about the damned thing, and you follow everybody else. I wish it and I were at the bottom ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung
... you're married," said Mr. Hen-shaw, brusquely. "You'd no business to ask me to go with you, and I was a ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... but after sipping her coffee, answered brusquely, "Oh no, let it be; I will write to-morrow." Then, feeling a touch of compunction, she looked up and said with playful ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... was that the Professor carried me again from my little valley! The great Judge Bundy standing at the platform's edge, brusquely dismissing us, had dwindled to pygmy height. He was a mere maker of nails. Life a moment since had been very simple, very concrete, a mere game in which the stake was food and clothes, a Queen Anne house, a clipped lawn and trotting horses. Now it was a mysterious expedition ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... was a chuckle back of her eyes, for all their innocence. Everybody shouted. Brother Seguin was nettled, and asked brusquely: ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
... said at length, "there's no use of your putting on airs and pretending you don't understand this thing. You know well enough it was all fixed before I went in." The other man looked at him in bewilderment, and the Governor continued brusquely: "The party knew the Senator was going to die, and so the Governor pulled out and I went in just so the thing could be done decently when ...
— Lifted Masks - Stories • Susan Glaspell
... seemed to be common fisher-folk. One day, while fishing on the rocks, there came up the elegant prima donna referred to, who, seeing that they had very fine lobsters, ordered them to be taken to the hotel for her. "Can't do it, ma'am," answered Leroy brusquely; "we want them for bait." The lady swept away indignantly. To her succeeded Ralph Waldo Emerson, who did not know them personally, and who began to put to Mr. Boker questions as to his earnings and his manner ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... mean you want me to unmask, I won't," the other returned brusquely, in fair French but ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... don't take any space," she replied brusquely. "They are no more than tapestry or frescoes. I shall have cases made to fit flat to ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... store, and Carey provided himself with a big iron cooking spoon, and thus armed and with basket and jar, he made his way towards the deck, to be met directly by the blacks, ready to chatter, grin, and dance about him, as he brusquely walked right through them till well forward, where he seated himself on a ship's fender and set the basket ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn
... custom, at the Tuileries; the King received and spoke to them with marked dryness; and when arriving in front of the Dauphiness, the first President prepared to address his homage to her, "Pass on, pass on," exclaimed she brusquely; and while complying with her words, M. Seguier said to the Master of the Ceremonies, M. de Rochemore, "My Lord Marquis, do you think that the Court ought to inscribe the answer of the Princess in its ...
— Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Volume 1 • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... heard it, and said, brusquely: "Bolton! No. Why, this is Walter Clifford, my son, and my man of business.—Walter, this ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... boys and girls been dead long a'ready. I guess abody shouldn't hold up such old things so long, it just makes you feel bad still when you rake 'em out and look at 'em. Here now, let me put it away, that's enough lookin' for one day." She spoke brusquely and put the cane into its hiding-place behind ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers
... bow, and answered coldly, brusquely almost, for I hated the very name of Sforza, and every living ...
— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini
... 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 ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... tried his luck again, with precisely the same result, and after that he had asked Anne regularly once a year to marry him, and just as regularly Anne said no a little more brusquely and a little more decidedly every year. Now, in the mellowness of a fifteen-year-old courtship, Jerome did not mind it at all. He knew that everything comes to the man who has patience ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... when a step sounded outside; the assistant snatched it from my hand, flashed it back into its place, and jumped to attention as Dawson entered. He surveyed us with those searching, unwinking eyes of his—for we had the air of conspirators—and said brusquely: "Clear out, Wilson. You talk too much. And don't admit any one except ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... in locating Jesus was at an end, for His presence was known throughout the town. Coming to Him, probably as He sat in the synagog, for on this day He taught there, some of the most intrusive of the crowd asked, brusquely and almost rudely, "Rabbi, when camest thou hither?" To this impertinent inquiry Jesus deigned no direct reply; in the miracle of the preceding night the people had no part, and no account of our Lord's movements was given them. In tone of impressive rebuke Jesus ...
— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage
... Spirito they went. During the three days preceding, Carl was agonized at the thought of having to be polite in the presence of ladies. No matter how brusquely he told himself, "I'm as good as anybody," he was uneasy about forks and slang and finger-nails, and looked forward to the ordeal with as much pleasure as a man about to be hanged, hanged in a good cause, ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... that proves the rule," said Nita Reese brusquely. Nita's reputation for executive ability was second only to Christy's and she was badly overworked, and tired and cross in consequence. "I don't think I quite get your idea, Betty. Do you want K., for instance, to give up her part in the ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... brusquely, "your time and mine is valuable. Why have Count Vassilan and I been summoned here this morning by ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... the Chief ordered brusquely, "and take the Infant with you. I'll send a relief man to his station. Go east—lay your course for Washington; you'll get other ...
— The Hammer of Thor • Charles Willard Diffin
... Mary, you don't suppose I want to leave you?" he answered brusquely, releasing his arm. "I want my own place, ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... out here to talk about that," Wilton retorted, brusquely. "You're all wrong there, Hastings! The boy's broken all to pieces. He sees clearly, too clearly, the weight of suspicion against him. You've mistaken his panic for hostility ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay
... with me?" Tallente interrupted, a little brusquely. "It is no part of my mission to explain," Miller replied. "I undertook to come here and beg you to return at once." Tallente turned to Lady Jane. "You will forgive me?" he begged. "In any case, I must have been ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... to his eyes, the captain said in a quavering tone: "They are waving to us with something aft there." He put down the glasses on the skylight brusquely, and began to walk about the poop. "A shirt or a flag," he ejaculated irritably. "Can't make it out. . . Some damn rag or other!" He took a few more turns on the poop, glancing down over the rail now and then ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
... sound for a while; then brusquely: "They were so afraid I would turn out badly that they fairly drove me away. Mother nagged at me for being idle, and the old man said he would cut my soul out of my body rather than let me go to sea. Well, it looked as if he would do it too—so I went. It looks to me ...
— To-morrow • Joseph Conrad
... amidst the deferential unhelpful gestures of the under-butler, Sir Isaac handed his wife out of the car. "Everything all right, Snagsby?" he asked brusquely if a little breathless. ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... "Come, now," he said brusquely, "you can't stand there and tell me you've never heard of Charley Welsh? Well, you must be young. Why, I'm an Only, the Only amateur at that. Sure, you must have seen me. I'm everywhere. I could be a professional, but I get more dough out of it by ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... drying freshwater shrimps, tiny minnows, and other drainings and rakings of the water to store away for future use. One of the younger officers stalks back and forth along the same path as myself, brusquely maintaining the road whenever we meet, evidently bent on showing off his contempt for the boasted prowess of the Fankwaes, by compelling me to step to one side. His demeanor is that of a bully stalking about with the traditional chip on his shoulder, daring ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... large eyes travelled from the face of the boy to the face of his Padrona with a deep and restless curiosity. He seemed to inquire something of Ruffo, something of Hermione, and then, at the last, surely something of himself. But when Ruffo had finished, he said, brusquely: ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... brusquely; "now you're in for it you must play the game out. He trusts you; if he sees you can't trust yourself, he'll shoot you on sight. That don't frighten you? Well, perhaps this will then! He'll SAY your religion is a sham and you a hypocrite—and everybody ...
— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... white teeth, and gazed with scorn. Belfast lifted a pair of dolorous eyes, with a broken-hearted smile, clenched his fists stealthily; blue-eyed Archie caressed his red whiskers with a hesitating hand; the boatswain at the door stared a moment, and brusquely went away with a loud guffaw. Wamibo dreamed.... Donkin felt all over his sterile chin for the few rare hairs, and said, triumphantly, with a sidelong glance at Jimmy:—"Look at 'im! Wish I was 'arf has ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad
... space pig," Kane said brusquely. "I can handle a landing and maybe a takeoff, but the rest of it I leave for the ...
— Turnover Point • Alfred Coppel
... somewhat brusquely. I confess I was at the moment in anything but an amiable mood. In addition to my prospects for the morrow, a suspicion had flashed across my mind that my new friend was not loyal. His knowledge of ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid
... the Englishman brusquely, "but if she had a wireless, she might report the situation to the Admiralty before they ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... man was won. Later in the evening, when the lively little party of Lennoxes, accompanied, of course, by Miss Delacour, went back to The Garden, his sister-in-law called him aside, and informed him somewhat brusquely of the fact that she was leaving for London on ...
— Hollyhock - A Spirit of Mischief • L. T. Meade
... John, all at once, brusquely coming to earth, "is exactly six hundred pounds a year. I suppose two people could live on that, though I'm dashed if I see how. Of course we couldn't live in England, where that infernal future peerage would put us under a thousand obligations; ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland
... head, he launched a ferocious glance at him; then seating himself at his father's left, he remained as motionless as a statue, his eyes fixed upon his plate. Meantime he whom they called Father Alexis did not make his appearance, and the Count, becoming impatient, threw his napkin brusquely upon the table, and rose to go after him; but at this same moment the door opened, and Gilbert saw a bearded face which wore an expression of anxiety and terror. Much heated and out of breath, the priest threw a scrutinizing glance upon his ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... Captain Eri brusquely replied that his friend was "'bout the same," and asked if Mr. Saunders intended to rebuild. "Web" didn't know just yet. He was a poor man, didn't carry much insurance, and so on. Thought likely he should fix up again if it didn't cost too much. Did the Doctor ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... the air of one accustomed to command, "take this gentleman's luggage outside, and tell them out there that it is to go to 'The Pines;' my men are there and they will look after it;" then, turning to Darrell, he continued, still more brusquely: ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour
... He pushed brusquely through the fringe of calculating youths who were gathered in the arches, watching for chances to dance only with girls who would soon be taken off their hands, and led his stranger lady out upon the floor. They caught the time instantly, and were ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... require nothing," he said brusquely. "I shall be away before you are awake. I am merely staying to set your mind at rest on the question of the house being visited and robbed. Don't let me disturb you—or ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... rather brusquely I am afraid, for a crazed man who is about to leave the world under such circumstances does not show at his best when disturbed almost in the very act, to the edge of which long agony has brought ...
— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard
... doing, his shoulders came brusquely in contact with one of them, which happened to be unfastened, and it swung open, revealing to his gaze two stark-white white boys, one of them holding an enormous pistol and both staring at him in stupor of ultimate ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... "Don't try," said Maxwell, brusquely. "Be here at eight in the morning. By nine there will be a few callers I may want you to throw ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... were cleaning the 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 he ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... to hinder you, Miss Harlowe," replied Julia brusquely. "I'm here. Are you sure that ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower
... money," exclaimed the colonel, brusquely. "I've come prepared. You'll find some bills in this envelope. Put ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... him, and turned brusquely away. Dazed and confounded, Robin faltered rather than walked to reach Stuteley, who stood awaiting him in the courtyard. Without a word, Robin took his hand. "Come, Will; let us go," he muttered, thickly: and with wrathful heart Robin Fitzooth ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... Grunhut had endeavoured to detain her in the passage, mumbling and gesticulating in the mystery-mongering way with which Madeleine had no patience. It incited her to answer the old woman in a loud, clear voice; then, brusquely putting her aside, she opened the door ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... bygones be bygones, then," he answered brusquely; but his brusqueness pleased her. "Take this chair ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... said Allerdyke brusquely. "Mr. Franklin Fullaway, of London—just as anxious as I am to hear what you have to tell us, doctor. You've come to ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher
... your father and mother yet," said Miss Hepsy brusquely. "I reckon you'd better not marry in Pendlepoint, or there'll be an end to your goin' home ...
— Thankful Rest • Annie S. Swan
... at her feet, and pressed his lips to the slipper she wore. Suddenly she turned, and stared at him in astonishment. "Is it comedy or romance, Boris Pavlovich," she asked brusquely, turned in annoyance, and hid her foot under the skirt which ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... observe more clearly the intensity of the firing on the outer line. The shots appeared to be coming nearer. The Commandant brusquely ordered them to leave their observatory, fearing that the fire might become general. The soldiers, with their customary promptitude, without receiving any orders, approached their guns which were in horizontal position, pointing ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... "Nonsense!" returned Salemina brusquely. "You think because you are under the spell of the tender passion yourself that other people are in constant danger. Francesca ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "I tell you I don't know what's the matter with me—" He passed one hand brusquely across his eyes and stood so, scowling at the hearth where Hafiz sat, staring ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... hands, I don't feel them," said Janetta brusquely. "Help me to get Mrs. Brand to her room, and then send for a doctor. Go to Dr. Burroughs, he will know what to do. I want him here as quickly as possible. And bring me some ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... in no such danger there as here," he answered brusquely; and Davies found her weeping dejectedly, but weeping to no purpose. When morning came Barnickel and Katty were boxing up the lares and penates, and toward nightfall Mira herself was meekly, though not resignedly, ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... declared Jacques brusquely; "the beast has strength for a hundred miles yet. 'Tis as fine a creature as I ...
— For The Admiral • W.J. Marx
... startled glance, said "Come on," quite brusquely, and gathered her into his arms with as little sentiment as he would have bestowed upon the piano. His eyes smarted with the smoke, which blinded him so that he bumped into chairs on his way to the door. Outside he stopped, and ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... this down-stairs," she said, giving him the magazine. "Perhaps he'll want it." Mr. Fiske looked at the written name, and then glanced sharply at her. "No," he told her brusquely, "he won't want it." He turned away with the magazine and left Linda standing irresolutely. She wanted to ask if Mr. Welles were still at the Boscombe; if the latter didn't want the magazine she'd love to have it, Linda couldn't ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... you understand," said Mr. Pitkin brusquely, "that I have engaged you at the request of Mr. Carter ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger
... brusquely: "Well, we have had enough of that. Leave us alone, Dora. Go to the parlor and ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... try to get more science the better for me," snapped out Stepton, brusquely interrupting his visitor, but without heat. "Let me tell you that I pass the greater part of my time in that very effort—to acquire more exact knowledge than I ...
— The Dweller on the Threshold • Robert Smythe Hichens
... runaways. In such a dilemma, feeling vexed and sore at his own loss, and indignant at the cross-examination he had just suffered, it was but natural that he should work himself up into a terrible passion, and should turn the vials of his wrath upon the police inspector who had treated him so brusquely. Yet in time, when his anger had died down, he, like every other patriot in Germany, put his own personal disadvantage aside for the sake of his beloved Fatherland. He sighed deeply, and resumed his work with the pious wish that, if he had suffered, ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton
... doubt you're surprised to see me," Orin said, brusquely, as he seated himself, still in his overcoat. "The truth is, I don't run round a great deal, and if I do, it's where it ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates
... he hailed Amber brusquely. "You're a 'ell of a job-'unter, ain't you? Mister Abercrombie's been wytin' for you this hour gone. ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
... Brotherton were almost strange to her, so little was she given to leave the sphere of her own duties. In the hall, at the door of his study, she met the Dean. He was so surprised that he hardly knew how to greet her. "I am come to call upon Mary," said Lady Sarah, very brusquely. ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... for gathering. These with their fragrance and beauty were beside her plate in dainty arrangement. They seemed to give the complete and final touch to the day already replete with joy and kindness, and happy, grateful tears rushed into the young girl's eyes. Dashing them brusquely away, she said: "I can't tell you all what I feel, and I won't try. I want you to know, however," she added, smilingly, while her lips quivered, "that I am very much ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... photographs, and in the thrill of this satisfaction any discrepancies in cut and texture passed generally unobserved. A silent curiosity settled upon the house, half reverent, as if with the Bible names came thronging a troop of sacred associations to cluster about personalities brusquely torn out of church, and people listened for familiar sentences with something like the composed gravity with which they heard on Sundays the reading of the second lesson. But as the stage-talk went on, the slave-maidens ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... much indifference towards him as she had at first shown interest. When, therefore, he suddenly left the social scene of action, his acquaintances surmised that he had got an abrupt dismissal, or as they more brusquely expressed it—"the game's up"! ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... Pennington looked up sourly as a clerk entered his private office. "Well?" he demanded brusquely. When addressing his employees, the Colonel seldom bothered ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... a little—the short note he had received from his friend Penrhyn Cardemon, saying rather brusquely that he'd made up his mind not to have his portrait painted for five thousand dollars, and that he was going off on The Mohave to be gone a year ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... what will ruin you," he said brusquely. "And that is lack of spunk." He derived a pleasure from the belief, apparently; he announced it with so much gusto. "In business you must not be a coward, ma'am. You must go for the man that's 'underselling' you, stand up to him, pay him out of ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... Squire betrayed some impatience during this speech of his leader. Though his rank was subordinate, no man present had more experience of warfare or was more famous as a fighter than he. He new broke brusquely into the talk. "We should be better employed in ordering our line and making our plans than in talking of the rhymes of Merlin or such old wives' tales," said he. "It is to our own strong arms and good weapons that we must trust this day. And first I would ask ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... to dissuade her when, at a cross road, they discovered two parties of armed men approaching from opposite directions. The leader of the nearer party spurred forward to intercept the little band, and, reining in before them, cried brusquely, ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Viscount arose brusquely. He could not allow this unknown man to spoil an ice he had offered. It was to him that the injury was addressed, as it was through him and for him that his friends had entered this cafe. The affair, then, concerned ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant
... mother, and I want my dinner," said Jim brusquely. "That check won't hoe the potatoes; so I guess I'll have to do ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley |
