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Example sentences for "brisker"

Lexicographically close words:
briquetting; bris; brise; brisk; brisked; briskest; brisket; briskly; briskness; bristle
  1. The product for which the demand is less will find its market sluggish, and in order to tempt further and brisker exchanges will be compelled to offer more favorable conditions.

  2. It is exceedingly fortunate that a brisker demand for money, especially if it be but temporary, does not necessarily enlarge the Supply or alter the value, but only hurries round the existing money.

  3. Were there no taxation except on Incomes, and were all the incomes rightly ascertained, the prices of everything would be just as if there were no taxes at all.

  4. Say, why did Time His glass sublime Fill up with sands unsightly, When wine, he knew, Runs brisker through, And sparkles far more brightly?

  5. This, according to our conceptions, appears to be a very absurd restriction, since it can scarcely be doubted but that in the higher latitudes the westerly winds are much steadier and brisker than in the latitude of 30 degrees.

  6. You see," said the vicar, "all the brisker girls go into service in or near London.

  7. Brisker and brisker grows the breeze; it is veering to the south, too; the sea is rising, and with it the spirits of everybody on board.

  8. Each time she entered the room where Christ and Mary were, Martha's steps grew brisker and more emphatic; and then the last straw was laid on, and the outburst came!

  9. Sir Walter Scott, speaking about anecdotes that he had heard, said he always liked to cock up their bonnets a bit and put a staff in their hands that they might walk on a little brisker and sprightlier than when they came to him!

  10. Randal obeyed, and after a few kindly words to Frank, Harley insisted on leaving the two young men together, and walked on to Downing Street with a brisker step.

  11. Cynthia was so evidently of my mind in this last particular that she laughed, and resumed the singing of her ballad, as we strode out the brisker for our intercourse.

  12. Rose, when she saw David, came on with a brisker step.

  13. When the time drew near for leaving off work, a brisker note sounded in the workshop.

  14. She had not wasted anything in the long period of idleness; the maids became brisker and the fare better.

  15. Many who stood by said that the award was high; Gunnar got wroth, and said that a full atonement was often paid for those who were no brisker men than Atli.

  16. Because they were brisker men themselves," says Sweyn; "but still in this it must be done as thou willest.

  17. Because they were brisker men themselves," says Sweyn; "but still in this it must be done as thou wiliest.

  18. Thorpe only lashed his horse into a brisker trot; the Tilneys, who had soon ceased to look after her, were in a moment out of sight round the corner of Laura Place, and in another moment she was herself whisked into the marketplace.

  19. Uncle Roland had moved on into Regent Street, but with a brisker step: the sight of the old chief had done the old soldier good.

  20. To insure the blessing of repose, we require a brisker excitement than a few turns up and down our room.

  21. Renounced alike its office and its sport, Its brisker and its graver strains fall short; Both fail beneath a fever's secret sway, And like a summer-brook are past away.

  22. Renounced alike its office and its sport, Its brisker and its graver strains fall short; Both fail beneath a fever's secret sway, And like a summer-brook are past away.

  23. The tide of life, swift always in its course, May run in cities with a brisker force, But no where with a current so serene, Or half so clear, as in the rural scene.

  24. The noise ran like wildfire along the hills: before echo could overtake it, a low rumbling followed, and then the brisker crackling again.

  25. The right knee-jerk was a little stronger and brisker than the left, yet it was difficult to be sure of this, and there was a still more doubtful difference between the Achilles reflexes.

  26. Then in a brisker tone he continued,- "For some years I sailed the west seas; but I was growing old and my strength was wearing away with the wet work and the fighting, so I hied me home again.

  27. Thereupon I slew the hostages, set fire to the town, and fell upon them straightway, and a braver fire and a brisker fight while it lasted I wish not to see.

  28. A brisker gust, without, and the tin symbol of the Golden Lion over the entrance to the inn swung with a harsh rattle almost around the bar that held it.

  29. Trade upon the coast had been brisker than usual, and three of the company's ships had come in at short intervals with excellent cargoes.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brisker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.