At the end of the week a curt farewell letter came from Mr. Peavey, in which she believed she divined the hand of Brennon.
Blainey perceived Dore, and giving her the preference with a curt bob of his head, reentered his den.
He almost realized--almost divined the very words of that brief, curt interview.
He did not dare to reveal to this stranger the identity of that child, because the telltale letter had been hidden from the coroner, and old Etienne stood in awe of the curt and domineering men who enforced the laws.
He had hurried in and had hurried away and had been curt and brusk and had not told her what was the trouble, so the woman reported.
The colonel was curtand his tone admitted nothing of his sentiments.
A big, gray automobile squawked curt warning behind him and then swept past and on its way, kicking dust upon him from its whirring wheels.
Most of the people had resented the signature of the Union of Brussels, and when the negotiations with the Northerners broke off and Don Juan asked for troops to fight them, he met with a curt refusal.
The negotiations begun in that direction met with Dutch and English opposition and the curt refusal of Spain to renounce her rights on her Northern possessions.
They met with a curt refusal and were obliged to agree to pay a regular subsidy in place of the old "special grants.
The last three corps were withdrawn from the army of Bernadotte, and that prince was apprized of the fact by the Czar in a rather curt letter.
A careful comparison of this laboured, halting effusion, with the curt military syle*style of the genuine letters--and especially with Nos.
The curt answer came back written in her Excellency's energetic, elegant writing: 'How is her Highness's appearance?
Like a faint fragrance of faded rose-leaves, a breath of this woman's charm seems to cling and elusively to peep out of the curt record of her crimes.
The captain received the new arrival with marked cordiality, and giving him a chair near his own observed with some interest the curt greeting of the young men.
A weaker man would have made a detour, but he held a direct course, and with a curt nod to acquaintances who would have stopped him walked swiftly in the direction of home.
What reply the cynic would have made to this curt contradiction it is impossible to say; but at that moment a shadow fell on the grass near them.
On the paper was scribbled a curt announcement from the writer that he would be at Lesser Thorpe on Christmas Eve at ten o'clock.
My beds are engaged," was the curt reply of the surly dame.
It was in vain that she turned her back upon him, and gave him curt ungracious answers, often affecting not to hear him at all.
Mike uttered curt comments into the communicator from time to time.
George felt with a little thrill of satisfaction the respect for him which underlay John Orgreave's curt tone of a principal--and a principal from the Midlands.
It was in anticipation of the telegram, curt and inexorable, that he kept harrying his tradesmen.
By such simple andcurt arguments did he annihilate the once overwhelming reasons against his joining the Army.
He made a number of curt observations as he handled the sheets of sketches.
Milly brought him to me and left us together, but at first he was almost curt in his effort to hide his sensibility to my beauty--as if that were a weakness!
In a few moments the hall-boy returned with the curt message, "Come up.
This curt way of dismissing the subject was a surprise to Mr. Randolph, for, however little Mr. Mitchel cared to show his gems, he had never before been unwilling to embrace any opportunity to talk about them.
Selwyn stood smilingly in the way hard by, speaking to those of the men as they passed who gave his presence the meed of a start and a stare of blank surprise, or a curt nod.
Occasionally, a low-toned, husky query would be met by a curt rejoinder suggesting a cautious reticence and a rising enmity, blockading all investigation save the obligatory inquisition of a coroner's jury.
Mercifully, the room was scantily filled, for it was early, and his curt explanation was accepted in respectful silence.
JERRY DEAR: What must you think of me for delaying so long to write, after the few curt words I found for you that night?
A curt and crisp note advised his friends of his intention.
It was not a request but a command flung at me with a curt incisiveness that brought the blood to my face, and I was never quite sure afterward why I went.
I think she is a woman of very good character, but she had a very curt tongue, and she doesn't forget very easily.
It was a curt announcement of the withdrawal of the Pineboro Railroad's repair work.
There was a long pause, broken finally by a curt "Well?
Expecting at any moment to be challenged by the U-boat, Morpeth gave a curt order to the signalman.
At a curt nod from the kapitan the quartermaster pulled over a lever which had the effect of actuating the twin horizontal rudders.
He rapped out a curt order, and the U-boat swung round through eight points of the compass and settled down to a course south-south-west, or parallel with the forbidding shore.
You'll get no explanation from me," was the curt answer.
I have changed my mind and do not want it," was the curt response.
In the present instance the man showed a disposition to scrutinize too closely the modest attire of the new-comers and the plain housings of their chargers, when the curt voice of the jester recalled him sharply from this forward occupation.
Thus perished a man who, with Curt von Stedingk, had received the order of Cincinnatus from the hands of George Washington, and who once was so near saving Louis XVI.
Hadn't she always, always suspected hiscurt speech and his off-hand manner and his judgment of women?
He propounded questions to Jorgenson much as a magician would interrogate an evoked shade, or gave him curt directions as one would make use of some marvellous automaton.
In all matters they affected curt phrases; and it has been observed that even the colloquial style was barbarously elliptical.
That the native term of Brith or Brithon, by its curt harshness, would clash on the modulating ear of the Greek voyager, or the Latin poet, seems probable, for by them it was amplified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
