" said Lydgate, looking at Bulstrode with an abrupt question, which made him uneasy, though in reality it was not due to any suspicious conjecture.
But he held her waist with one hand and laid the other gently on both of hers; for this rather abrupt man had much tenderness in his manners towards women, seeming to have always present in his imagination the weakness of their frames and the delicate poise of their health both in body and mind.
One evening, when he took the pains to go to Middlemarch on purpose to have a chat with Lydgate as of old, he noticed in him an air of excited effort quite unlike his usual easy way of keeping silence or breaking it with abrupt energy whenever he had anything to say.
Perhaps Lydgate and she had never felt so far off each other before; but there were strong reasons for not deferring his revelation, even if he had not already begun it by that abrupt announcement; indeed some of the angry desire to rouse her into more sensibility on his account which had prompted him to speak prematurely, still mingled with his pain in the prospect of her pain.
Lydgate was abrupt but not irritable, taking little notice of megrims in healthy people; and Ladislaw did not usually throw away his susceptibilities on those who took no notice of them.
" "There is everything to be done," said Lydgate, with abrupt energy.
His words were quite abrupt and awkward; but the tone made them sound like an ardent, appealing avowal.
But when the road suddenly left off at the church and the steps, further evasion was impossible; and faced by this abrupt and difficult finish to their journey there was nothing for it but to amalgamate.
Trent's letter was like himself—blunt, abrupt, concise, wasting no words.
Trent was as gruff and abrupt as usual, but he did not tell her ailment was imaginary.
They also observed abrupt changes to mineral phases, which suggests the presence of an upwelling.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is still figuring out the next steps after Kevin Hart's abrupt departure from the show.
One thing is clear though, the switch between humid and arid can be abrupt.
I've already lost some of my dear ones in an abrupt manner.
" Only Austria has pushed for an outright halt to accession talks, amid concern in Germany and elsewhere that an abrupt break could jeopardise a controversial deal with Ankara that has helped curtail migrant flows into Europe.
However, Uber's abrupt decision to sell its Chinese unit to its rival Didi Chuxing highlights the extremely costly battle that was raging behind the scenes.
In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a more abrupt or staggering evolution.
In 1928 he published the novel Ni Huanzhi(schoolmaster Ni Huanzhi), which chronicles the life and times of an intellectual from the time of the Chinese Revolution of 1911~12 to 1927, when the Northern Expedition against warlords came to an abrupt end.
In a recent report, Antonio Donato Nobre, a veteran climatologist with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, warned that if just 40 percent of the Amazon region is deforested there could be an abrupt large-scale shift to grasslands, which could substantially alter global weather patterns "and cause a breakdown of the current climate system.
We had made an abrupt move from New York City to rural Connecticut in the wake of 9/11.
