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"Miss Milray," said Clementina, with a kind of abruptness, "do you eva hear anything from Dr. Welwright?". From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
Then with startling abruptness the green net came. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
He jerked out the inquiry with breathless abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The abruptness of the question caused the stranger to smile. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
If I tell you in very few words, will you forgive my abruptness?. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
He left with the same abruptness as he had from the stable alley. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
He turned with abruptness and started back the way they had come. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck] Reference
And then, with the most startling abruptness, there came a change. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Trail] Reference
The abruptness of the question was quite disconcerting to Kathleen. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
We must remember the unexampled abruptness of the Arabian revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Made anxious by Boorda's uncharacteristic abruptness, the driver followed. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter Of Honor] Reference
At the moment Jennie Bruce entered with more abruptness than good manners. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
"Caillette?" she answered, lifting her brows at the abruptness of the inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Willa laughed nervously, a little taken aback by the abruptness of the question. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Her smile slipped for a moment into a round “o” of surprise at my abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lives In My Shower] Reference
There is an abruptness always somewhat unpleasant in the use of the adverb alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
But express communication also lends itself to an equivalent measure of abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [When ‘Goodbye’ Is A Click Away] Reference
ROBERTS: The age of video downloads seems to have arrived with surprising abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [Murdoch's New Groove] Reference
As the Sepoy reached this point in his narrative he paused with startling abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Again Peace came to the earth with an abruptness that left her breathless and quaking. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Executives say he was often on the receiving end of Eisner's abruptness and impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Power Failure] Reference
INTENTIONAL BATHOS has a humorous incongruity and abruptness that is sometimes forcible. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
"That is not the costume you wore last night, Miss La Salle," he said with cold abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
As for Windham, he turned away with something like abruptness, and left her with Obed Chute. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Can you read accompaniments?" he asked, flashing the question at her with his usual abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
She turned again with an abruptness foreign to the usual Wyvern manner and faced the older Terran. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The abruptness of their departure and loss of their belongings sharpened his feelings of a paradise lost. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hampton: My Egyptian paradise] Reference
That loss -- though not without signal difficulty, from the abruptness of the summons -- will be supplied. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
"Don't you people know how hot and smelly it is in here?" he said, with his usual unceremonious abruptness. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
She is startled by my abruptness, or my inability to stand up straight without the crutch of the futon rail. From Wordnik.com. [Sacre Something] Reference
"Yes," replied the Roman, whom the abruptness of the question surprised too much for him to evade it with his habitual diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With an abruptness equal to that of Montfanon, he took up the volume and grumbled as he turned it over and over in his inky fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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