The voices of the men, in good-natured badinage, floated out on the brisk air; then came shouts of laughter.
A few minutes later another gust came, this time a little stronger, and before they fairly realized it, a brisk breeze was blowing.
Once on board the train, two hours took him to the city, and thence a brisk walk to the building-yard.
He was as little at ease as his master, made all the fuss he could with his bottle, and drank his wine with far too great a deliberation for a person generally pretty brisk with the beaker.
What followed in that hearthstone fight so hot and brisk took so short a space of time, and happened in so confused and terrible a moment, that all but my personal feeling escapes me.
Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw that this tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poisonous aspect.
He therefore quickened his pace, and had gone a good way along the pleasant wood-path, when there met him a young man of very brisk and intelligent aspect, and clad in a rather singular garb.
At the sound of the brisk step, Poll made a vigorous effort to sit up, but Jill's young glance could not be deceived.
Little Jeanie has turned that pettish after the brownchitis that I thought I'd get a bottle to brisk her up a bit.
She had spent the greater part of an hour in the empty kitchen when there came a brisk knock at the door.
This is a large apartment filled with tables, each of which will accommodate six people, and each presided over and waited upon by a brisk moving, calico-clothed Nebraska maiden.
Mr. Anything became a brisk man in the broil; but both sides were against him, because he was true to none.
Here, therefore, they met with a very brisk lad, that came out of that country; and his name was Ignorance.
When he had left her, Prudence said, Did I not tell thee, that Mr. Briskwould soon forsake thee?
Mr. Anything also, he became a brisk man in the broil, but both sides were against him, because he was true to none.
Kirk and Son, of Cowes, shows the little yacht running free before a brisk breeze off the coast of the Isle of Wight.
Henty proceeded with the staff in the rear of Russell's regiment, and had not been more than ten minutes on the march ere the brisk rattle of musketry told him that the 42nd were busy at work clearing the village.
When he left the place that night the proceedings were still in full swing, and when he returned to it at six o'clock the next morning, there was the same crowd as late the night before, and a brisk trade was still going on.
For the moment he felt himself a donkey as Lady Claire turned quietly away and the victoria rattled off with brisk finality.
After him stepped out a brisk old man whose moustache and eyebrows I remembered of old.
By this time we had started at a brisk pace along the banks of the Danube.
They are not seemingly so large as those from Muscovy; but appear to be a verybrisk Bird.
There was a number of vessels hurrying on before the brisk monsoon, but no Yankee among them.
It was late at night when she made her appearance--there being a bright moon and a brisk breeze.
This was fortunate, for if there had been a brisk breeze blowing, she must have run within the charmed marine league, before we could have overhauled her.
Not once till now have I got farther in that direction than the purely negative state of not being encouraged; and whenever I reach that state I go for a brisk walk in the sunshine and come back cured.
Kathleen got up and said in a brisk voice that destroyed all Michael's bravery, "Come, let's be getting back.
Now came Miss Carthew's brisk and lively presence to make many alterations in the life of 64 Carlington Road, Kensington.
Joe was still watching by the window, when another sleigh stopped, and a brisk little figure sprang out, running up the walk.
Yes, it would be better," replied thebrisk waitress.
The Fourth of July was celebrated by shooting at a mark; and that night we had a true blessing, for we camped on a little bare sandspit on an island, where the wind was brisk and kept the mosquitoes away.
We sailed down Lake Lindeman with a fair brisk wind, using our tent-fly braced against a pole, for a sail.
A store in such a populous town was a valuable property, and Mr Hunter's had a reputation which ensured the various departments brisk business all day long.
Then they picked up those who had fallen and returned slowly to the camp, a rearguard marching behind them and answering the volleys discharged at them with a brisk fusillade.
The prison van was just crossing the bridge at a brisk trot.
When the door of the prison-van had been securely closed, the driver cracked his whip, and the sturdy horses started off at a brisk trot.
No day was too long for her and no road too heavy; her brisk trot knew no failing, but she refused ever again to form the personal attachment that had sealed her and Wettstein to each other.
Tired as I was, I took a glorious brisk trot through the Canebrake Road, with a couple of leaps over fallen trees, that revived the old emotions and made a man of me again.
The carriage door was instantly opened, they entered, and the horses started at a brisk pace.
Two years ago, Massa Stillham come down to Caroliny to spend the winter, and he was round in the slave-pen as brisk as Massa Robbem, counting the niggers, and telling how many dollars they ought to sell for.
