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abruptness
1. Though the abruptness of his motion took the Breton by surprise momentarily, she was immensely thankful for the embrace
2. But then it stopped with an abruptness that made her jump
3. “Whether it was the abruptness of his parents death or just what turned him in this direction, no one knows
4. He apologized for his abruptness about the radio, and Colling and Elizabeth repeated their apology for causing any discomfort to Mendoza and his wife
5. that house again, if only to just ease the abruptness of
6. ” Somonik replied, nonplussed at the abruptness of the question
7. Conan moved with the abruptness of a jungle cat
8. DS Tony Ellett left the interview room with the same abruptness as he had entered it
9. Enchanted by her abruptness, he wondered why she fled to such a remote sanctuary, apart from what seemed to be her friends?
10. She then followed his glance to the front, with a look of insult at his perplexing abruptness
11. Suddenly, Martha Spalding cried out with such abruptness and no warning that a passerby may have concluded that she had just been slain
12. For a certain roughness and abruptness of style I must apologize
13. If her colleagues were surprised by her abruptness, none of them took the time to ask her what was wrong
14. “Oh,” he said, surprised by her abruptness, “Thanks
15. From the abruptness of her awakening she gathered that the spell was cast nearby, perhaps within a few miles
16. He pointed to me with abruptness and said, “Only you are permitted to go farther
17. As they ventured towards his naval they must have noticed the sizable bulge that now pulsed beneath his belt buckle, for they retreated with some abruptness, as if in fear of his appetite
18. The minute it was made Jo saw her mistake, but fearing to make the matter worse, suddenly remembered that it was for her to make the first move toward departure, and did so with an abruptness that left three people with half- finished sentences in their mouths
19. "Your sister," said he, with abruptness, a moment afterwards--"is out of danger
20. Then Jada materializes between the Hag and Ryodan with the abruptness of a Fae sifting in and I realize that was never his plan
21. "Poor dear soul!" said this lady, with an abruptness of manner quite my sister's
22. The impulsive abruptness of her
23. "I could not help smiling at the abruptness of the question
24. My incredulity annoyed Armitage so that he turned and left me with some abruptness
25. Bulstrode's private room, he was struck with the painfully worn look on the banker's face, and was going to say, "Are you ill?" when, checking himself in that abruptness, he only inquired after Mrs
26. The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused him from his lethargy
27. Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her
28. " But when I was near the end of my story I noticed that behind his good-natured smile there were signs in his face from time to time of some impatience, some abruptness and preoccupation; when I came to the letter, I thought to myself :
29. The impulsive abruptness of her movements was such that at every step the lines of her knees and the upper part of her legs were distinctly marked under her dress, and the question involuntarily rose to the mind where in the undulating, piled-up mountain of material at the back the real body of the woman, so small and slender, so naked in front, and so hidden behind and below, really came to an end
30. If he roused himself from his brooding and began to talk, he always spoke with a kind of abruptness and never of what he really wanted to say
