Adjective : A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.    From Dictionary.com. 

Siqueiros 'brusk manner and ripeness offended him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Dennis, art lover] Reference

"Not much chance for the child," said the brusk doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

"Pardon my rather brusk reception of you," he apologized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golf Course Mystery] Reference

He did not say it harshly; it was Dr. Poole's way to be brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Having uttered these few brusk words, he turned and hurried away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

He was just as brusk and as brief of speech as he had been before.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

I took cognizance of the fact that I got a message that I was brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2002] Reference

Steele's eyes met the other's squarely; then he made a brusk movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

"Bad news for you, Janice," said the red-faced doctor, in his brusk way.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

"Why discuss what could never have been considered?" was the brusk answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

An ashen shade came over his face, but it passed quickly; his voice sounded brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

I live much alone and I fear my manner grows brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green Eyes of Bâst] Reference

His manner was brisk, brusk, striding over trifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

"They've taken a fall out of us," was the brusk reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference

Pity if D.T. is brusk to people who want an autograph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

"Of course I won't," said Dale, in the same brusk tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Garden] Reference

And then there came to him a brusk notification from Claudio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference

A large, brusk, well-groomed, good-looking woman of fifty was Auntie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me] Reference

Lady Ingleton did not look surprised on receiving this brusk negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

The words came eagerly with the brusk assurance of an immediate answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Diablo] Reference

"We shall settle those points at Delgratz," declared the brusk Stampoff.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Immortals] Reference

She said her doctor, Jana Bures-Foresthoefel, was brusk and overbearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

Dion drew up a little nearer to the fire with a movement that was rather brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

"You might have stood in on that if you had taken Guilford's offer," was the brusk rejoinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference

Turning to me, he drowned my tremulous thanks in a brusk: You are all right here, little girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeleine: An Autobiography] Reference

"Poetry," she said with brusk boredom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

I think I was very brusk with my comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Hockey League - Lightning vs. Rangers] Reference

She tries again, and each time he is brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Begging for Jokes...] Reference

The green dwarf was brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

Steele made a brusk gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

But his voice was not brusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

"You must own he is a trifle brusk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference

She spoke with almost brusk decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

His brusk manner often gets him into trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Immortals] Reference

His manner was brusk and business-like again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood Red Dawn] Reference

Keith was brisk and brusk, breathing prosperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rimrock Trail] Reference

Sorry, brusk, busy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference