Suddenly Vanamee returned to himself with the abruptness of a blow.
Then one night the tragedy had suddenly leaped from out the shadow with the abruptness of an explosion.
Then the ground trembled and rocked; a roar as of heavy ordnance developed with the abruptness of an explosion.
At this sudden encounter of Montalto's son, who seemed to start with spectral abruptness from the ground beneath us, Barozzo shook in his saddle as if he had seen an accusing spirit.
Another consideration should not be overlooked in the comparison between the Elizabethan and the Restoration drama, that the debasement of the latter is exaggerated from the seeming abruptness of the metamorphosis undergone by the former.
Treloar, who happened to be sitting next to him, was startled by the abruptness of the attack, and wondered what grounds he had ever given the little man to believe that he could call a woman a pig.
The right hook of Rivera had dropped him in midair with the abruptness of death.
Notice the abruptness with which the leper is here introduced, just as before at the beginning of the story.
A day or two afterward, Edith asked her mother, with an abruptness that sent the color to her face, "Where was my baby buried?
At last Mrs. Dinneford spoke out again, and with an abruptness that startled her: "Not another dollar, sir!
Yes," replied the Roman, whom the abruptness of the question surprised too much for him to evade it with his habitual diplomacy.
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: "I would not sell it for six hundred francs.
In the dim garden below the buzz of talk was suddenly broken by Miss Hunt's musical instrument banging with the abruptness of artillery into a vulgar but spirited tune.
Becoming more at ease, St. John dropped the concentrated abruptness of his manner, and explained that Bennett was a man who lived in an old windmill six miles out of Cambridge.
Mr. Flushing treated his wife with a mixture of admiration and indulgence, making up by the suavity and fluency of his speech for the abruptness of hers.
Her tall slender figure, supple, shapely, and all softly rounded curves without a discoverableabruptness or angularity anywhere about it, lent itself with singular charm to her present occupation.
The instant she had done so, she felt ashamed of the discourteous abruptness of the action, and confused at the alarm and surprise which the manner of the nurse exhibited.
Pg 380] This abruptness of language is quite in accordance with the subject, and belongs, moreover, to the characteristic peculiarities of Amos.
The consolation and promise here begin with as great abruptness as in the first section.
He entered on the explanations which his visitor naturally expected from him with the unceremonious abruptness of a man hard pressed for time, and determined to make the most of every moment at his disposal.
I want the key," said Magdalen, passing from the imitation at the breakfast-table to the post-bag on the sideboard with the easy abruptness which characterized all her actions.
He does think, however, that reality may be brought nearer, and that literary language should give place to a style which will reveal the irregularity and abruptness of vital conversation.
Despite his economy of action and speech, he seldom gives one the feeling of abruptness in transitional passages.
At the same time he placed a small case, about nine inches square, in the hands of Gerard Douw, who was as much amazed at its weight as at the strange abruptness with which it was handed to him.
You will excuse me, then, my dear niece, for speaking with anabruptness which, under other circumstances, would be unpardonable.
But I must pardon your unpleasant abruptness in consideration of your diligence.
He said, with the same uncouth abruptness as before: "Heard anything of that fellow since he left Carlsbad?
With an effort, he turned the dialogue into quite a new direction, and Jane, though a little absent for some minutes, seemed at length to forget the abruptness of the change.
There ensued a break in the conversation; then Kirkwood said, with the abruptness of one who is broaching a difficult subject: 'I should like to tell you what it is that's going wrong with me.
On the east the peak falls with great abruptness some 6500 ft.
His terseness sometimes degenerated into abruptness and obscurity.
That conception of the purpose of the book seems to me to have light cast upon it by, and to explain, the singular abruptness of its conclusion, which must strike every reader.
But I think that the reason for the abruptness of the record's close is to be found in the continuity of the work of which it tells a part.
