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He was big, brusk, quibbling, insulting, dictatorial, painstaking, considerate and kind.
2
A large, brusk, well-groomed, good-looking woman of fifty was Auntie.
3
In the adjoining room, over the "blotter," snapped the brusk stereotyped nasal reply:
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He was just as brusk and as brief of speech as he had been before.
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Ina, being half a foreigner, thought this rather brusk.
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His brusk manner often gets him into trouble.
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His manner was brisk, brusk, striding over trifles.
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His manner was brusk and business-like again.
9
He was distinctly another person from that tense, saturnine, defiant, brusk person who strode through the reception-hall.
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She spoke with almost brusk decision.
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But his voice was not brusk.
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The green dwarf was brusk.
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Roland had always imagined that editors in their private offices were less easily approached and, when approached, more brusk.
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The brusk reply was: Why, you old fool, that's the Cabinet that is a-settin', and them thar big feet are ole Abe's.
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There were no endearments or caresses, naturally, but her brusk nods of greeting and farewell seemed to have real good feeling behind them.
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It swept over Thorwaldsen, like a winter's wave, that this big, brusk, bizarre woman before him was Maria Louisa, the second wife of Napoleon.