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Meanings of brusque way in English

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Usage of brusque way in English
1
He meant to make amends for his brusque way with her before.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
2
Then turning quickly to Mrs. Gannon, he said, in his somewhat brusque way:
The Mill Mystery
3
I thought about the news regarding his son, the brusque way he'd told me.
Beautiful assassin
4
The red-bearded man bowed in a rough, brusque way.
The Magicians of Caprona
5
Drawing back, I let Dr. Farnham take the lead, which he did in his own brusque way.
The Mill Mystery
6
He knew that he was a prominent business man, and he liked the brusque way he talked.
Jess of the Rebel Trail
7
He was therefore well pleased when at last the landlord bustled up in his brusque way and said:
A Face Illumined
8
He patted the chestnut's neck, in his rough, brusque way of companionship, and the horse fairly quivered with pleasure.
The Furnace of Gold
9
This Bill and the brusque way it is being handled bears the hallmarks of a "general election" module.
The Irish Times
10
Roosevelt's brusque way of bringing the Alaska Boundary Question to a quick decision, may be criticised as not being judicial.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
11
At the moment of leaving the Council Chamber, the Minister of War said to him, in a jocose, brusque way: Well!
His Excellency the Minister
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.
Heart of stone
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But now he's loud and talking in a harsh, brusque way, as if his tongue had been replaced by a piece of pine bark.
The eye of the leopard
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.
The Wild Olive: A Novel
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.
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ...
16
She was learning not to fear his brusque ways.
The Captain of the Kansas
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