Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss Sandusky" is certainly a strange story, ending in a totally unexpected and very abrupt manner. It is not always clear, and sometimes it is impossible to follow the writer's meaning. The dialogue is so jerky and piecemeal as to mar the effect...
Sing song verse intervenes, and then comes an article entitled "Old London Streets," the first, I am glad, to see of a series. The description is vivid in spite of awkward wording; the essay good in spite of abrupt ending, Book notices, the Items and the Brief end a number of which the editorialsa re the best part...
...these abrupt questions everybody turned upon him with silent scrutiny. It was several minutes before Captain Peregrine could bring himself to vouchsafe a reply...
...hard as coral"? Why has this poet forsaken that classic drudge, adamant? and why the abrupt transformation of a resisting person to one throwing darts? In the last line of all there is an abrupt descent from the sublime to the ridiculous, but then "gate" is an excellent rhyme for "mate." A little poem entitled "Crepusculum" attempts to describe the twilight season. In the second stanza the poet speaks...
Must I be abrupt in disclosing the denouement? Shall I relate the sad ending of my little romance? I confided in his nobility and childlike lack of culture. I was deceived. I mourn the loss of his manly figure. I miss his artless simplicity of nature. I also miss my jewelry and papa's diamord shirt...