Did this man hide, under his brusqueness and brevity of speech, the fund of wisdom and the wider sympathy and understanding he suspected?
I don't know how you've got into this state, sir," he said with the brusqueness of emotion.
The fugitive was anxiously awaiting her, with a slight touch of brusqueness in his eagerness.
He stopped instantly as she momentarily recoiled from him, but the very brusqueness of his action had dislodged a tear from his dark eyes that fell warm on the back of her hand, and seemed to blot out the indignity.
Wylie senior took the cue of brusqueness and nodded shortly.
The strain of repression lent him added brusqueness when he strove to explain, and his coldness left her sorely hurt.
He is a jackal, a dog of the Americanos," he added, vaguely intending to revenge himself on the stranger's former brusqueness by this depreciation.
They were hurt and disappointed, and this personal feeling was increased by Bismarck's want of consideration, his brusqueness of manner, his refusal to consider complaints and remonstrances.
He had always disliked Bismarck; he was offended by the brusqueness of his manner.
He would not, perhaps, have noticed his own brusqueness had she not looked a little surprised, and, he thought, annoyed.
When he was there the master himself put aside all the brusqueness he displayed in their down-town discourse on politics.
He had always treated him with a brusqueness that had a sort of good-humor beneath it.
He seemed, however, to considerbrusqueness the proper professional attitude.
A few minutes more brought the doctor, all smiles, his brusqueness vanished.
By the curious brusqueness with which Mr. Colquhoun had lately treated him, he fancied that it had.
Jim snatched it from his hand without ceremony, in fact with a brusquenessaltogether foreign to him.
But the man had such a reputation for brusqueness and straight speaking that Jim felt sure that if he disagreed with what he had just expressed as his opinion, Tomkins would promptly say so, and that with the utmost bluntness.
Come, brother," he said, with kindly brusqueness and a touch of relieved impatience a man may feel at the end of a perfectly useless ceremony.
When he swung about, the skirt of his soutane was inflated slightly by the brusqueness of his movements.
C's breeziness had in it a touch of condescension, or D's brusqueness was the brusqueness of assumed superiority.
But O'Meara, who possesses all the brusquenessof the average Yankee lawyer, has no mind to argue the case.
There was a brusqueness in his address, an apparent assumption in his manner, which had nothing consonant to them in his feelings.
Wallace, however, deprecated such brusqueness of action, and induced the Council to despatch a special invitation to the Earl, urging him to come and take his proper place in the counsels of his countrymen.
Harry remarks a delicate courtesy of Wallace's in apologising to Sir John for the brusqueness of his order in the heat of the pursuit; and no less generous was Sir John's answer.
There was often a brusqueness in her comings and goings, but she usually left a flavour of herself behind.
Her voice softened the brusqueness of this; the way she said it gave it a right to be said in any terms.
