Arkady's eyes watered from the briskness of the air. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
The briskness in some measure returned to his manner. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Then, with determined briskness, she gathered her reticule. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
He rapped the words out with a certain degree of briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
He stepped around and around the desk in agitated briskness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Nor was there any of the briskness visible on a high road in. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Bea assumed her station of nurse with businesslike briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
"Make it six, if you can," Tom said with continued briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
His tone was gentle, gentler than his usual briskness by far. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
The briskness of McCain's answers made him appear more assured. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Weissman: Saddleback: The First McCain-Obama Encounter] Reference
Now she shook him, but gently, and spoke with her usual briskness. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
DANFORTH, with a sudden briskness of manner: I judge you not, sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Crucible]
She came into the room with the briskness of a March flurry of snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
And what need then is there to plough and weave with such briskness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
His sense of justice dictated that, as well as his general briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Patricia took over, a miracle smile overwhelming her air of briskness. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Man] Reference
Blenkiron, but the briskness of the tread was unlike his measured gait. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
It had come across as a sympathetic briskness in that first interview room. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
The briskness of our friendships depends on the time when -- the place where. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
For briskness, thriftiness, energy, and alacrity, it is hard to find his match. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Its briskness demonstrates that period accuracy doesn't have to diminish the story. From Wordnik.com. [Married to the Mob] Reference
The wind may still be cold, but there is a briskness in the air that stirs good blood. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
It vanished utterly, before I could be sure of it; there was only a soldier's briskness. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
'If you'll get into the dinghy,' he said, all briskness now, 'I'll pass the things down. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
He drew his chair closer to me with an air of briskness which had been foreign to him before. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"Come away in, Captain," said Jean, assuming an air of briskness the confusion of her face belied. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
He looked at his watch and stood up, the briskness returning to his manner like an accustomed coat. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
The unexpected wages which they were promised being liberal, they trotted off with unwonted briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
If these excitements did not prove sufficient to give them an air of briskness, they were wakened up by. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829] Reference
With Ashley and Elly I've never really gone deep, we just talk about life and the whole briskness of it. From Wordnik.com. [maybmemorys Diary Entry] Reference
The CEOs mince no words, and bring briskness and focus to the soupy, unfocused word of educational reform. From Wordnik.com. [Busting The Big Blob] Reference
Alain Visser, Opel's head of sales and marketing, says her "youth and briskness suits our cars perfectly.". From Wordnik.com. [GM's Opel Signs Up Singer To Boost Image] Reference
Madame H-- (working with great briskness) -- Well, I can not imagine that they are men -- like the others. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
(She must be humoured, he supposed.) ‘Right,’ said Dame Beatrice, with sudden and startling briskness. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
These surpassed the former in briskness of mental parts as much as they fell behind them in bodily condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
‘Well, sir?’ he said, with a briskness which I suppose was an indication that I must pull myself together. From Wordnik.com. [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]
"I've got to get the jury together for the inquest," Conboy returned, with the briskness of a man of importance. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
And the salt breath of the sea came over the pebble ridge, full of appetite and briskness, after so much London. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
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