It thus assists in relieving the abrupt projections and depressions of the general surface, and in giving roundness and symmetry to the entire body.

Diana is never abrupt; her voice is ever modulated to soft, even tones; she rises from a chair or couch with the lithe, sinuous motion of a serpent uncoiling.

My abrupt action seemed to bring Joyce to herself.

She was just busy thinking how rude he was not even to have said "Good morning," when an abrupt remark from him caused her to look up.

"Perhaps you will tell me what you suspect?" "Will you forgive me, in my turn, if I am abrupt, or if I speak my mind a little too plainly?"

The natural result was that his manner was offensively abrupt.

When one has been bowling the whole morning, and bowling well, without the slightest success, one is inclined to be abrupt.

All scientific additions came to an abrupt stop about the decade of 1880-90.

Cissie's own interest in historic furniture and textiles came to an abrupt conclusion.

In its surface Africa has been compared to an inverted saucer,the high plateaus occupying most of the interior descending to the sea by short, abrupt, and steep slopes, so that the wide and peaceful rivers of the plateaus are lashed into foam as they approach the ocean by many series of rapids and cataracts.

The meeting of the stiff marl and the fine sand was abrupt, and well marked by the vegetation.

The remainder is rather abrupt, at least much more so than the lovers of fervid poetry could wish, especially as the termination is with the following exquisite ballad: Our native land, our native vale, A long and last adieu!

It grew rather stern, rather abrupt.

" It was on the strength of such abrupt questions that strangers were apt to think that the Khan had fallen into his second childhood before his time.

I must return to the army, and these cruel circumstances oblige me either to make a declaration which she may possibly condemn as too abrupt, or go and leave her unknowing of my heart, and thereby deprive myself even of her pity:Which party, madam, shall I take?Will the severe extreme, to which I am driven, be sufficient to attone for a presumption which else would merit her disdain?

We may observe, in conclusion, that the abrupt termination of Rasselas, so left, according to sir John Hawkins, by its author, to admit of continuation, and its unbroken gloom, induced Miss E. Cornelia Knight to present to the public a tale, entitled Dinarbas, to exhibit the fairer view of life.

The eye passes over rocks, rugged, broken, and abrupt towards their summits, crowned and darkened with wood; and the narrow road winding between the trees, until it loses itself in the forest, forms a feature very gratifying to the traveller.

They addressed these words to him in the abrupt tone in which men usually speak when anxious to get rid of a troublesome person, and instantly arose and walked away.

Immediately in front of him all signs of the trail ceased; both tracks came to an abrupt end.

The small settlement came to an abrupt ending just over the brow of the hill.

But to-day his manner was more abrupt than usual.

Her conduct towards Annie was just the same, in fact, she more than once answered her grandmother in such a tart and abrupt manner, that her mother whipped her for it.

If poetic diction be different in species from plain English, then let us have it as poetical as possible, and as unlike English; as ungrammatical, abrupt, involved, transposed, as the clumsiness, carelessness, or caprice of man can make it.

It seems to me I've seen youjust lately" Moffatt seemed about to answer, but his reply was checked by an abrupt movement on the part of Mr. Spragg.

She did not know what had passed between her guests before her abrupt descent through the pergola, but she was quite certain she had fallen into the middle of a psychological moment.