"Curtness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mary, and tingled with a rather feline pleasure to see that her curtness merely sharpened the ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick
... Steptoe, with uneasy curtness. "He was running away with a woman—well, Mrs. Barker, if you want to know," he added, with rising anger, "the wife of one of those cursed partners. Jack Hamlin was here, and was jockeying to stop him, and interfered. ...
— The Three Partners • Bret Harte
... did not notice the curtness of the reply, or he chose to ignore it, for the next instant, noting the gasp of pain and the sudden tightening of the lips that accompanied her attempt to raise her foot to the stirrup, he swung lightly to the ground, and before she divined what he was about, had lifted her gently into ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... without being fully understood. She talked but little, and yet her silence seemed to be more the result of having nothing to say and no sympathy with the ordinary topics of conversation, than from dislike or inability to converse. When she did speak, the same childlike curtness and immobility were observable, that had been shown by the couch of her dying relative. She seemed to be repeating set words, that did not affect her heart or make any change in the expression of her face; even though she may have been deeply ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... privilege of friendship," he answered with a reassuring smile. "But why be careful—of whom?" There was some curtness ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart |
