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Meanings of briskness in English

Portuguese
furor
Spanish
animación

Liveliness and eagerness.

furor
Usage of briskness in English
1
The briskness of our friendships depends on the time when-theplace where.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
A drink of spirits helped me; my blood presently flowed with briskness.
The Frozen Pirate
3
Hardenburg started up the rise with what seemed to Christian superhuman briskness.
The Young Lions
4
His sense of justice dictated that, as well as his general briskness.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
5
The stranger came on with an airy briskness utterly foreign to Orientalites.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
6
Then with equal briskness she would arise and force herself to labour.
The Old Wives' Tale
7
He turned then to Kornel with a briskness that was not unkindly.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
8
During all that day the grave-diggers' labors were pushed on with briskness.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
9
Now she shook him, but gently, and spoke with her usual briskness.
The New Land / Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of O...
10
She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds.
The Song of the Lark
11
You must be nearly two months' gone, Kat calculated, seeking refuge in briskness.
The lady elizabeth
12
It had come across as a sympathetic briskness in that first interview room.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
13
She marched to the bed, feeling there was safety in briskness.
The Fireman
14
Both Merton and Amos wore airs of cheerful briskness that deceived the public.
Merton of the Movies
15
What struck me about the whole scene was its extraordinary animation and briskness.
She and Allan
16
He rapped the words out with a certain degree of briskness.
Night and Day
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Briskness through the time
Briskness across language varieties
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