On the other hand, if there is a succession of short sentences, choppiness and roughness are the result.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
"Yes, a good many people play it short, with a kind of choppiness.
"Hildegarde's Harvest"
Laura E. Richards
There are, of course, very many people who run across the Channel as easily as a Melbourne man may week-end in Gippsland or Bendigo, but the suburban section of London is not fond of voyaging across a strip of water with unpleasant possibilities in the way of choppiness, to a strange country where most of the inhabitants have the bad taste not to speak English.
"Back To Billabong"
Mary Grant Bruce