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.
I didn't know what had emboldened me to be so curt, maybe the fact that I thought I was going to die anyway.
This is great when a bear is chasing you, but not so great when you're responding to a curt e-mail.
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
The flight computers are your brain," said Space Launch System engineer Curt Jackson.
The bank person, an elderly gentleman with a white beard, was, as usual, curt to my polite "Happy New Year.
Curt Welch and Charlie Perticari are regulars at a workshop located in a nature park near Washington.
Curt Cloninger, 2001 Design is directed toward human beings.
