" It was a curt dismissal, coupled with a plain threat, easy to understand.

Seguin ended by asking in his curt dry voice.

She went in, and for a few moments one only heard her dry curt voice.

Mervyn, however, promptly wrote to his opponent, offering him the free use of the waters for which they had thus sharply contested, and received a curt and scarcely civil reply, declining the proposed courtesy.

The Chief picked it up and read the curt lines in which Dawson delivered his last word.

Thus perished a man who, with Curt von Stedingk, had received the order of Cincinnatus from the hands of George Washington, and who once was so near saving Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from their cruel fate.

He took command; he cross-examined landlord and postboys, pooh-poohed their objections, extracted from them in half-a-dozen curt questions more information than, five minutes before, they were conscious of possessing, to judge from the scratching of heads which produced it; finally, he handed Dorothea into the chaise, sprang in himself, and closed discussion with a slam of the door.

As a rule he was between these two extremes, silent, morose, ill at ease, shooting out curt little remarks which made everyone uncomfortable.

Othello tries to tell a curt soldier's story of his love; but the account is like a bit of Mandeville's famous travels, teeming with the fancies that filled men's heads when the great round world was first brought to their attention by daring explorers.

He was superb, and she believed him now; there was no questioning the fact, he saw it plainly, and with exultant cruelty; then curt as lightning came the knowledge that what Branwen believed was the truth.

BUTHMAN, WILLIAM CURT.

© 28Aug39; A132031. William Curt Buthman (A); 1May67; R409459. BUTLER, F. Sleeping through space.

We saw the Academy, and, oh, Curt!

"Are you beginning to co't me again, Curt?" "Have I ever ceased?you little Rebel!"

" "That was certainly ve'y frien'ly of you, Curt!"

His wife endured it to the limit of patience: "Curt," she began in a lower voice, "you and I gen'ally avoid certain matters, dearbutev'ything is sure to come right in the endisn't it?

"Curt, is business so plaguey poor because of all these politics?" "My business is not very flourishing.

Somehow, to-nightI don't knowand Curt seemed a little anxious.

"Curt?" "Yes, dear.

"The children and Ailsa are all abed, Curt.

"Curt," she faltered, "it will all come right in the end.

O Honey-bell!" whispered her sister-in-law, taking Ailsa into her arms, "I could have behaved myse'f better if Curt were on the side of God and Justice!But to have to let him go this wayto know the awful dangerto know he is going against my own people, my own homeagainst God and the Right!O Honey-bird!

my chair and I said, 'Curt!'

Captain Lent has gone with Curt to the camp, and Curt means to recommend him for his major.

But to see my Curt go this wayand my only son crazy to join himOh, it is ha'd, Honey-bee, ve'y, ve'y ha'd.