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He meant to make amends for his brusque way with her before.
2
Then turning quickly to Mrs. Gannon, he said, in his somewhat brusque way:
3
I thought about the news regarding his son, the brusque way he'd told me.
4
The red-bearded man bowed in a rough, brusque way.
5
Drawing back, I let Dr. Farnham take the lead, which he did in his own brusque way.
6
He knew that he was a prominent business man, and he liked the brusque way he talked.
7
He was therefore well pleased when at last the landlord bustled up in his brusque way and said:
8
He patted the chestnut's neck, in his rough, brusque way of companionship, and the horse fairly quivered with pleasure.
9
This Bill and the brusque way it is being handled bears the hallmarks of a "general election" module.
10
Roosevelt's brusque way of bringing the Alaska Boundary Question to a quick decision, may be criticised as not being judicial.
11
At the moment of leaving the Council Chamber, the Minister of War said to him, in a jocose, brusque way: Well!
12
His clothes didn't set him apart from a dancer who wanted onto the floor, but the brusque way he moved, full of purpose, did.
13
But now he's loud and talking in a harsh, brusque way, as if his tongue had been replaced by a piece of pine bark.
14
He jerked out the words in the brusque way in which a man says all that, for the moment, he is physically able to utter.
15
When abreast of the carriage he dismounted, and walking up to it, saluted the Emperor in a quick, brusque way that seemed to startle him.
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She was learning not to fear his brusque ways.
