"Curtness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... changed so much, he spoke with such curtness and even with such contempt, that Mrs. Cosham looked at him fairly puzzled. Happily she belonged to a generation which expected uncouthness in its men, and she merely felt convinced that this Mr. Denham was very, very clever. She took back her Shakespeare, as Denham seemed to have no more to say, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... tempted him to his first dance in many months. He had seen Pollard's team, but he had not seen Pollard or his niece. Broderick watched him, smiling a little. "Have a drink, Buck?" he asked, seeming not to have noticed the other's curtness of word and manner. "I've ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... might have asked me before going to Mrs Hensor for information,' she answered with equal curtness. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed |
