You have been praying during the night," said Okiok to Egede in an abrupt manner, almost as if he were accusing him of taking an unfair advantage of circumstances.
But the time had arrived to send him off, so she was obliged to bring her questions and advices to an abrupt close.
It caused an abrupt stoppage of the pantomime, and an intense glare of expectancy.
The jovial hunter was moved to this voluntary and abrupt offer of a story by his desire to prevent anything like angry feeling arising between Okiok and the wizard.
Suddenly, however, he came to an abrupt halt, and threw up his arms as if in amazement.
There were noabrupt breaks, but holes and pits and caves were everywhere, and occasionally, deep down, an amphitheater green with cedar and pinyon.
It ended abruptly, and above that abrupt line, seemingly far away, rose a long, red wall.
Once, on the journey, we thought the piping times of peace had come to an abrupt end.
Here we could plainly see the formation of these valleys, abruptat the end and like a circus, not made by streams descending, but like creeks and bays of a gigantic fiord.
Mahmoud soon broke down and rejoiced greatly thereafter, but Saleh reached the end of the day and his evening meal in safety, but his fast came to an abrupt termination early in the morning.
There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation.
And the instant the reversal was made it felt like the abrupt ease when a bone is put back in the socket.
Berkeley was beginning to think himself trifled with, and, being naturally a little abrupt in such cases, he told her flatly that if she meant to refuse him after all, she ought not to have admitted him so often.
Suddenly, an abrupt bend in the path brought them to the banks of another of those narrow streams with which the country was intersected like a net-work.
He'd been receiving too many lucky breaks lately, and he was afraid it would all come to an abrupt end if he didn't watch his step.
Am I--" The sudden and abrupt slackening of the train's speed woke both boys up in a flash.
When they do not overlap, the aestivation is Valvate, when the pieces meet each other by their abrupt edges, without any infolding or overlapping; as the calyx of the Linden or Basswood (Fig.
Mucronulate, tipped with a minute abrupt point; a diminutive of the last.
Crusader sees them too, for he is now close up to them; but forsaking the course he has hitherto followed, he makes an abrupt turn and breaks off westward, continuing this direction in full gallop, till the rocks hide him from view.
If white, he goes clear; but long before the white ones are exhausted the two blacks are taken up, which brings the ceremony to an abrupt end, that deciding all.
Good day, Miss Stevens," he said with his abrupt bow.
Again he gave the abrupt foreign bow and, while Mildred was still struggling with her surprise and confusion, she saw him, through the window, driving rapidly away.
At the same moment Roger became aware of a peculiar and alarming sound, as though loose rocks and shale were slipping down an abrupt slope.
Roger was the first to discover some scattered bits of wood lying around, a tree that grew further up the abrupt face of the mountain having dropped some of its branches.
Hollister looked his surprise at the abrupt decision.
Shortly after the public exhibition of his models, financial difficulties are said to have overtaken Pennington and he is reported to have departed suddenly for foreign climes, bringing his experiments to an abrupt end.
He was totally unaffected by the abrupt change in pressure, although the deepest he had ever been was ninety feet, and on that occasion he had suffered from bleeding at the nose and ears.
Could "it" be coming so suddenly, in this casual, abrupt manner?
She was startled at this abrupt emergence of the name which secretly filled her mind and was aware with exasperation that she was blushing.
The eye leaped down abrupt slopes of forest to the valley they had left, now a thousand feet below them, jewel-like with mystic blues and greens, tremulous with heat.
She brought her extravagant, her preposterous, her ignorant, her incredibly convincing claims to an abrupt end.
Mark's surprise at this abrupttermination of the interview was great, but as Rafaravavy retired hastily, he had no resource but to follow his friend.
Fortunately, perhaps, for our negro, the chief came out of his hut at that moment and gave the signal for the hunters to advance, thus bringing the game and Ebony's aspirations to an abrupt end.
The bridge would then appear to me an abrupt ascent, rising to the dense city, and their figures would stand out clearly against the background.
The quarrel ended with her abrupt departure from the room and from the house.
The conviction brought him to an abrupt halt, followed by a quick reflection.
The bitter conjecture brought her reflections to an abrupt ending; and, once more plying whip and spur, the jealous equestrian dashed rapidly on, up the sloping path that trended towards the hills.
Yola could see nothing that should have caused the creature to make so abrupt a departure from its roosting-place.
He had long been suspected of having poisoned his master, the former owner of the estate, who had made anabrupt and mysterious exit from the world.
Olwen had known her Chief sharp and abrupt before.
There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him: Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and then in Dante it seems a natural condensation, spontaneous to the man.
This want of success produced an abruptchange in the fickle minds of the Barbarians.
The banks of the waterfall almost joined at the top, yet, separated by an abyss of immense depth, presented thatabrupt appearance which so often astonishes and appals the traveller amidst the Grampian Mountains.
Here he came to an abrupt halt, his nose twitching.
The fence, ending in a rough wall of field stone, made a capital highway along which he shuffled happily until brought to an abrupt halt by the appearance of another fence traveler.
Then they tumbled out into the sunshine, blinking and rubbing their eyes with their little black paws at the abrupt change from dusk to bright daylight.
An abrupt descent--and they halted, at the inn facing the lake.
The road made an abrupt ascent to the Fontana Petrarca.
The first blow, abrupt and stunning, had paralysed.
It stood on the summit of the hill, on the left; beneath which the river made a very abrupt bend.
The abrupt tropical dawn found her in mid-canal, half-way to Tarog.
It made an abrupt downward plunge that scraped a crag, and just missed a canyon wall.
An abrupt leave-taking is always the best; we will go home," said Linda.
Imagine the dismay of my wife and of myself at this abrupt announcement!
Put on your overcoat and hat, and follow me,” was the abrupt order given him by the officer at the door of his cell.
