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He was brusque, as if the moment had never happened.

The words might have been brusque, but his voice was not.

But he had not the heart to be brusque with her.

If I seemed a little brusque, he was going to have to deal.

A brusque woman asked what his business was, why he wanted to see the great man.

I'm sorry if I was a bit brusque with you.

As your host I have perhaps been a little too brusque.

I just want to get alone with Brusque before something else happens to him.

I'm sorry to be so brusque, but things are about to get very hot around here.

Food is good but expensive and service can be brusque.

"You're going to continue to ask me about control," he said, his voice growing brusque.

He is said to have been brusque in his manners.

A brusque male voice, not interested in talking to anyone.

For a long moment, he said nothing, then gave at last a brusque nod.

There was hard, brusque confidence in the way he came toward them.

He gave her a brusque nod and got out of bed.

I was still pumped, and it made me a little brusque.

She seemed a different woman now, massive, brusque, in control.

He looked at her for a long time, then gave a brusque nod of his head.

Under his brusque treatment, she came out of her faint.

But service was more brusque on a weekend night as the place filled up.

Perhaps it was the tension that made him so brusque.

His voice was brusque, but right then he didn't care.

Despite the brusque opening, she'd smiled to see him up and about.

I had already heard about the brusque approach taken by the Americans during house searches early on.