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