Stunned by his curtness, she clicked off the cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
"Mine's Francis Yager," spoken with equal curtness. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The curtness of his tone and his refusal struck Mr. Golyadkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Double] Reference
He hesitated perceptibly, then agreed with his usual curtness. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
"What's in the papers then, Son?" he asked with the curtness of. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
I had taken to a certain measure of curtness in my dealings with him. From Wordnik.com. [Rose red city, half as old as time] Reference
She had a curtness and a dismissiveness that I found very unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Gunn’s Golden Rules] Reference
To the small crowd, however, this was the extreme of brutal curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
"Then I will," Lara replied graciously, in spite of Darcy's curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
Rovald spoke with a curtness he did not use when the civs were present. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
Marcella's curtness at the kitchen door had taken the edge off the day. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
He pronounced the hereditary tide with a curtness that approached insult. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
"Have you got the stuff?" returned Smith with the curtness of an old friend. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Only when he had finished did Taen realize his curtness was rooted in distress. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
A fleeting shadow of pain darkened his blue eyes at the curtness of her greeting. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Season]
Lois Dunlap commanded with a curtness that set oddly upon her kind, pleasant face. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
And I decided that such an approach might be met by me with its equal in curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
"I am!" she fired back with equal curtness, her good humour evaporating completely. From Wordnik.com. [Consultant Care]
Fia sat up and shoved her hair from her face, wondering at the curtness of his tone. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference
"Better," she said with even more than her usual curtness, and she was never prolix. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
She pouted her lovely lips at his curtness, her flir-tatioushess as natural as her beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Father Unknown]
Sharp jealousy of her defense of the American intruder drove Falconer to unseemly curtness. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
The toneless curtness of Sisko's recorded voice told Dax just how grim the situation must be. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
Instead, she had closed the discussion with a curtness that was not reassuring to the plotters. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
“I never sacrificed my husband to another,” Mrs. Touchett continued with her stout curtness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
"You must practice," said Tamlin, and the sudden curtness in his tone cut Taen's amusement short. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
The young man spoke with cold curtness in his effort to combat the wild temptation of that moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
A time had been when the lawyer studied curtness and precision under minds of abridgment in London. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
She spoke quickly and perhaps, with unusual curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life] Reference
There was more than mere business curtness in the denial. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference
"Nothing at all," was the reply given with unusual curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life] Reference
The curtness of the answer might have displeased another woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Masquerader] Reference
"Luggage first," said Barebone, lapsing into the curtness of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
He paid absolutely no attention to the tone of my reply or its curtness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
Something in the cattleman's eye, in the curtness of his speech, brought. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
"That was last night's order," said the commander, with military curtness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarence] Reference
She felt that he would think this curtness ungracious, but more she could not say. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
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