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1 At any other time Orsino would have laughed at the characteristic abruptness .
2 Then she added with a curious characteristic abruptness :
3 Then he turned to me with characteristic abruptness .
4 With characteristic abruptness , he made his decision, but with no spoken word, no gesture, no emotion.
5 With characteristic abruptness Liane Delorme announced that she was sleepy, it had been for her a most fatiguing day.
6 And in the gloaming her pleasant voice, with its quick breaks and hesitation, its characteristic abruptness , had sounded in his ears.
7 Of Myra Nell, meanwhile, he saw nothing, since, with characteristic abruptness , she had decided to visit some forgotten cousins in Mobile.
8 But for his indecent haste in getting rid of me, his characteristic abruptness at the end, there would have been no misunderstanding or mistake.
9 "I came near getting married once," she said presently, with characteristic abruptness .
10 "I scarcely know where to begin," he replied, yet smiling at the characteristic abruptness of her question.
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