Meanings of abrupt voice in English

These words, pronounced by Rodin in an abrupt voice, made the Princess and Father d'Aigrigny grow pale and tremble.

He took a few rapid steps toward her, checked himself, bowed profoundly, and said in a somewhat abrupt voice:

Another boy came forward, made his bow, and said, in a short, abrupt voice, My uncle's name is Henry Worthington.

He had an abrupt voice, suggestive of temper, and the haughty bearing which is the chief attraction of Englishmen for American women.

She walked straight to Gyges, and fixing upon him an imperial look, clear and commanding, said to him in a quick, abrupt voice:

"The tube is on the mantel-shelf," he said, in a cold, abrupt voice.

"You are rather adorable, you know," said his abrupt voice.

'Well,' said he, in his hardest and most abrupt voice, 'what account do you give of yourself?'

"It is enough," resumed the soldier in an abrupt voice: "I have made up my mind.

"Ah," he exclaimed, in an abrupt voice, "you are the little girl they were expecting home from school."

'I shan't be able to go with you,' he said, in a thick, abrupt voice, addressing Earwaker but not regarding him.

"Your excellency!" Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt voice, "you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin's battery.

"Have you a card-catalogue?" he asked in a pleasant abrupt voice; and the oddness of the question caused her to drop her work.

"Mrs. Weldon," returned the Portuguese, in an abrupt voice, "I could revenge myself on you for the bad treatment I suffered on board the 'Pilgrim.'