He changed the subject very abruptly.
" Emily, recalled thus abruptly from the field of Bannockburn, looked bored.
The little clap-boarded house topped a small hill, over which tansy grew in a hard, flaunting, aromatic luxuriance, rising steeply and abruptly from a main road.
That great chorus stopped as abruptly as the electric lights go out when you press a button.
CHAPTER IV: Whitefoot Grows Anxious 'Tis sad indeed to trust a friend Then have that trust abruptly end.
Once he caught just the faintest of scents which caused him to stop abruptly and test the air more carefully than ever.
'Agnes dear,' she said abruptly, 'we must go now, or we shall be late for tea.
Fancy me walking into a room alone, and a great man fifty years old coming forwards, and after a few minutes' conversation actually turning his back upon me, and then abruptly going out of the room.
"Ainsi," he began, abruptly fronting and arresting me, "vous allez trôner comme une reine; demain—trôner à mes côtés?
"I cut short these confidences somewhat abruptly now and then," said I.
" I did not choose to ask any further questions, but turned abruptly away.
One morning, coming on me abruptly, and with the semblance of hurry, she said she found herself placed in a little dilemma.
When he saw Johnny Chuck he stopped abruptly.
"Well, he's gone," said Dan, turning his back abruptly to us.
"Such as using tooth-powd—" but here Dan stopped abruptly, remembering the Story Girl's plea for a beautiful month.
He turned abruptly away and looked out of the window, but we could see his shoulders shaking.
" One evening Gilbert abruptly proposed that they go down and see Captain Jim.
Doctor, dear," said Susan, coming abruptly in.
CHAPTER 21 BARRIERS SWEPT AWAY "Anne," said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, "you don't know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again—working—and talking—and being silent together.
" asked Leslie abruptly.
