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Sentences ending with abrupt

I hope you were not abrupt. [5]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
Instead of a law-book, he flung down a time table in which he had been investigating the trains to a quail shooting club in the southern part of the state: The transition to Mr. Hodder was, therefore, somewhat abrupt. [9]

More example sentences with the word abrupt in them

The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
He was not wholly surprised when Palass Poucette's widow did not show abrupt displeasure at his bold familiarity. [11]
His manner was usually decisive, abrupt and self-reliant, but now he seemed to her like a clock that points to one hour while it strikes another. [10]
For the next two miles the road was a mixture--sometimes the ascent was abrupt and sometimes it was not: but one characteristic it possessed all the time, without failure--without modification--it was all uncompromisingly and unspeakably infamous. [5]
The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
Manners ejaculated, and then came to an abrupt pause, while I wondered whether the shot had told. [9]
The music in the cabin came to an abrupt pause, and only the tumbling of waters through the planks of the great wheels broke the silence. [9]
Old Phelps, who sometimes made abrupt remarks in trying situations, was not included in this census; but he was the disciple of supernaturalism in a most charming form. [4]
When the first shock of her futile appeal to Lassiter had passed, Jane took his cold, silent condemnation and abrupt departure not so much as a refusal to her entreaty as a hurt and stunned bitterness for her attempt at his betrayal. [13]
The abrupt action sent the blood to his head, and feeling a blindness come over him, he put both hands up to his temples, and sank back on the couch, dizzy and faint. [11]
However, I am satisfied to know that your delusion has come to so abrupt, and in my opinion so happy, an end. [10]
I'm hit--twice," he said, with grey lips; with eyes that stared at her and through her to something beyond; but he spoke in an abrupt, professional, commonplace tone. [11]
If there was one man of whom he had a wholesome fear--why, he could not tell--it was this round-faced, abrupt, imperturbable American, Claridge Pasha's right-hand man. [11]
The ground rises on one side of this by an abrupt step, some thirty or forty feet high, like the "bench" of a Western river. [4]
Perhaps some doubts of its pure delight presented themselves to Mr Swiveller, as he gave vent to one or two short abrupt sniffs, and looked incredulously at the grinning dwarf. [12]
An unexplained residuum of change must be left to the assumed uniform action of those unknown agencies, which occasionally induce strongly marked and abrupt deviations of structure in our domestic productions. [1]
Mr Brass and Miss Sally were lurking hard by, having been, indeed, only routed from the keyhole by Mr Swiveller's abrupt exit. [12]
He did not make the question abrupt, and there was even the hint of a smile in his eyes, which Mr. Plimpton found the more disquieting. [9]
There had been indeed an unconscious lack of consideration in Janet's abrupt announcement, which had fallen like a spark on the dry tinder of Hannah's hope. [9]
She liked this incisive, shrewd, plain-spoken man--often indeed sharp and abrupt in his freedom--and he appreciated her bright, natural ways. [10]
His flaming glance, his abrupt demeanor, his laboring breath, proclaimed it plainly enough.--Then let the struggle begin! [10]
She saw that he was not of the labouring classes, that he had known better days; his speech, if abrupt and cheerless, was grammatical. [11]
The variations may have been gradual, or somewhat abrupt as in the case recently given of the humming-birds near Bogota, in which certain individuals alone have the "central tail-feathers tipped with beautiful green. [1]
She is both hard and warm-hearted, abrupt and affectionate, liberal and despotic. [14]
The lightning-flash which had fallen on the brassplated cupola, and then discharged its force along a flagstaff, had alarmed even the sages and philosophers; and the Symposium had come to an abrupt end but little more dignified than the orgy in the temple-halls. [10]
It seems a general remark, but it is not general; the hero mentioned is the to-be hero of the book; and in this abrupt fashion, and without name or description, he is shoveled into the tale. [5]
The abrupt seizure frightened me; I sprang from her arms in my terror, and fell over the railing of the balcony. [6]
A small, alert figure stopped short, a small, abrupt hand saluted. [11]
There is internal evidence of this in the abrupt manner in which it opens, and in the absence of allusions to the discords during the voyage and on the arrival. [4]
An' the letter ended abrupt, in the middle of a sentence, en' it wasn't signed. [13]
Make your mind easy," said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. [2]
Ten feet further down hill neither Lewis nor any other man could have saved them, for they would have been on the abrupt "turn," then. [5]
This reverie, which did not last many minutes, and was interrupted by the abrupt moving away of Edith to the writing-desk in her own room, was caused by a moment's vivid realization of what Jack's interests in life were. [4]
But in other days I was in places--" The Young Doctor interjected with abrupt friendliness that there was no need to say he had been in high places. [11]
It was the day next after Mr Brass's confession, and consequently, that which threatened the restriction of Mr Quilp's liberty, and the abrupt communication to him of some very unpleasant and unwelcome facts. [12]
Her abrupt silence came upon him like the last engulfing wave to a drowning man--the final assurance of the end, in which there is quiet and the deadly smother. [11]
The change had been rapid, though not that abrupt one which is liable to happen at any moment in these cases.--The sick man looked towards him.--Farewell,--he said,--I thank you. [6]
It can, however, be shewn that such variations, whether consisting of slight individual differences, or of strongly-marked and abrupt deviations of structure, depend much more on the constitution of the organism than on the nature of the conditions to which it has been subjected. [1]
It should also be remembered that many species of Lepidoptera are liable to considerable and abrupt variations in colour. [1]
The rest would be compensated at the Town Hall the next day for their abrupt dismissal. [10]
But light shone ahead; another abrupt turn brought day again, and then wide open space. [13]
His manner was abrupt, yet oddly enough, not ungracious. [9]
His words were abrupt but composed. [11]
Venters saw ahead a turn, more abrupt than any yet. [13]
No one had a keener eye; but he was abrupt in his dealings with those from whom he had nothing to gain. [10]

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