Giselle's short answers, prompted by fearful caution, drove her beside herself by their curtness that resembled disdain.
I prefer to think him disinterested, and therefore trustworthy," Mrs. Gould said, with the nearest approach to curtness it was in her nature to assume.
The curtness of his response scorched the wires: Explain in person if you can.
He had come East in obedience to a wired summons from Martin Harrison, brief to curtness as were all business messages from that man of few and trenchant words.
The stubborn look on his face, his evident determination, and the curtness of his answer roused an awful suspicion in his mind.
All right,' he said, with a curtness which matched that of the lad who had released him.
I can't get away from work this summer, Elva," he said, with something of the curtness of his business tone.
There was more than mere business curtness in the denial.
I haven't received any additional instructions from her," he said, with none of the curtness of tone that his stiff legal vocabulary implied.
Luggage first," said Barebone, lapsing into the curtness of the sea.
I have been there before," replied Loo, with a curtness so unusual as to make Miriam glance at him.
