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Examples for "brisk "
Examples for "brisk "
1 Exactly what do we know? Sarnow's clipped voice was brisk but clear.
2 The hotel reports a brisk trade in champagne breakfasts on race days.
3 Its option volume was also brisk , running six times the normal level.
4 To be sure, hotel companies are reporting brisk convention business for 2016.
5 Voting was brisk in the North's 18 constituencies from early morning yesterday.
1 A new subject kind o' briskened things up fur a while.
2 A good squall clears the air and briskens things up.
3 "It will brisken you up," says he.
1 Irish retailers reported public interest yesterday in the new product, although sales had not been particularly brisk up to mid-afternoon.
2 The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.
3 Susan brisked up a little for the occasion, and looked very pretty as bridesmaid.
4 After a while the party started on their way once more feeling greatly brisked up .
5 I gave it him, and was not disappointed in the result, for he brisked up wonderfully.
6 Modestine brisked up her pace for perhaps three steps, and then relapsed into her former minuet.
7 Mrs. Rachel sighed, and then brisked up again.
8 As I was devouring the child with last kisses, it brisked up and jabbered out its vocabulary!
9 We heard she'd been in Washington last winter, so Eben he brisked up and tried her on politics.
10 She brisked up with a kittenish purr when disturbed, and remarked that the Hengishire air was like champagne.
11 So the sad days wore on, and the fell-side air had not yet brisked up Emmanuel's adopted daughter as his sister prophesied.
12 True, when it came to getting the Children of Israel out of Egypt, as Cousin Bill J. observed, "Things brisked up considerable."
13 She looked, however, extremely pleased, quite brisked up in fact, and so delightfully like a girl that Rhoda took heart of grace, and enquired:-
14 "Oh, that's all right," Hewson brisked up in response, as he took the cigar St. John offered him.
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