"Of course I won't," said Dale, in the same brusk tone.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The Sikh had a rage in his heart that the German mistook for zeal and native ferocity; his manners became so brusk under the stress of it that they might almost have been Prussian, and, met with its own reflection, that kind of insolence grows limp.
"Winds of the World"
Talbot Mundy
"They've taken a fall out of us," was the brusk reply.
"The Grafters"
Francis Lynde