Burnley had been home he had ignored her save for a curt nod.
' She saw that he knew that she had been present, and gave him another curt monosyllable.
Through the open windows of the kitchen and parlour, Anna could hear the voices of the two men in conversation, Mynors' vivacious and changeful, her father's monotonous, curt, and heavy.
Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid.
When we had done—when two sheets were covered with the language of a strongly-adherent affection, a rooted and active gratitude—(once, for all, in this parenthesis, I disclaim, with the utmost scorn, every sneaking suspicion of what are called "warmer feelings:" women do not entertain these "warmer feelings" where, from the commencement, through the whole progress of an acquaintance, they have never once been cheated of the conviction that, to do so would be to commit a mortal absurdity: nobody
" For a minute I stood there with the paper in my hands thinking out the meaning of this curt message.
We found him lying on the doorstep when we got up, and it did not need Aunt Janet's curt announcement, or Uncle Blair's reluctant shake of the head, to tell us that there was no chance of our pet recovering this time.
" But Leslie was brusque and curt when Anne thanked her, and again the latter felt thrown back upon herself.
Bambridge was rather curt to the draper, feeling that Hopkins was of course glad to talk to him, but that he was not going to waste much of his talk on Hopkins.
" Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to imperative facts.
" said Lydgate, who was much given to use that inconvenient word in a curt tone.
She too, she explained, had no mother— Lady Caroline interrupted with the curt information that her mother was alive and in London.
"I had my breakfast in my room," she said, trying her utmost to sound curt.
Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the "chatter" until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.
Marilla really did not know how to talk to the child, and her uncomfortable ignorance made her crisp and curt when she did not mean to be.
At the time of writing, the top comment is a curt one: "",.
The bank person, an elderly gentleman with a white beard, was, as usual, curt to my polite "Happy New Year.
When speaking about his biological parents, on the other hand, he was curt: ".
" "That means you want the long answer," he said, his voice impassive, not reacting at all to my curt tone.
He gave me a curt little shake; it felt like squeezing a sparrow.
