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4 total sentences available.
"Ah, well now, of course," St. George conceded, "but if you have a mysterious boarder who talks Patagonian or something, and we think that perhaps we can talk with her, why then--" "It doesn't matter whether you can talk every language in South America," said the warden bruskly.
Source: wiktionary
He rose bruskly and crossed the room.
Source: wiktionary
I didn't expect to be conveyed to my hotel atop a white elephant, through streets lined with salaaming natives, but neither did I expect to make a wild dash through thoroughfares as crowded with traffic as Fifth Avenue, in a vehicle which unmistakably owed its paternity to Mr. Henry Ford, or to be bruskly halted at busy street crossings by the upraised hand of a helmeted and white-gloved traffic policeman.
Source: wiktionary
Dohrn writes that she called the home school on Shaw's behalf and "was told bruskly that these girls were no longer eligible to be students at the home school because they resided out of district."
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include abruptly, bluntly, curtly, gruffly.
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