"Abruptness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... squire, "uncommonly lucky as usual. Now, excuse my abruptness in changing the subject—I want to consult you upon ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford
... interrupted, and his disappointment was perceptible when he heard the creaking sound rather farther down the stairs, as if his visitor had decided to withdraw. He rose, opened the door with unnecessary abruptness, and waited on the landing. The person stopped simultaneously ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... least, so Amy declared afterwards. The car, which fortunately had decreased its speed to negotiate an abrupt turn in the road, suddenly shot down a slope at the left, turned around once and stopped with a disconcerting abruptness, its radiator against a four-inch birch tree. Clint and Amy picked themselves from the bottom of the tonneau and stared, more surprised than frightened. Behind them, on the level road, a wheel—present investigation ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour
... resembled an escape than a departure. In fact, she had left the house in the morning, on foot, and was expected back, as usual, to luncheon after her walk. But luncheon passed, and there were no tidings of her; and, at dinner-time, a brief note by the post announced her leave-taking, excusing its abruptness, on the ground of a sudden and urgent call into the country. This was, no doubt, the subject which the angry shadows on the blinds had been so vehemently discussing the night before. So violent an infraction of etiquette ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
... doing here, Fenn?" he asked, with an abruptness which brought a flush to the latter's face. "Why are ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
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