| But his abruptness and brusquerie offer a different indication. |
| There was a brusquerie in her manner that would not have been there had there been any one else present. |
| Of course, he meets Celia, and at first is brusquerie itself. |
| There is the brusquerie of heartening in Jeffard's rejoinder. |
| John d'Albret felt that it was no time to resent this Catalan brusquerie. |
| There seemed no reason, for all his brusquerie, why I should not tell him this. |
