Ever while you live, keep a Wife ignorant, unless a Man be as brisk as his Neighbours.

He was too brisk in villainy to admit a wooden leg.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.

Leigh is, I presume, the contemptible pedant, and the Sir Fastidious Brisk of Oxford.

But no matter what befell at Dawson, business must be kept brisk at Minóok.

The fire became brisk without doing much injury to the barricade.

The firing was very brisk for some time when it was suddenly discovered that the enemy had disappeared.

But the three men gave out no word of reply; but ran in at me; and I saw somewhat of the gleam of knives; and at that, I moved very glad and brisk to the attack; and behind me there went shrill and sweet, the call of a silver whistle; for the Maid was whistling for her dogs; and maybe the call was also a signal to the men-servants of her house.

See if that does not ring in your ears all day, and remind you that it is not merely much pleasanter to be bright and brisk about everything, but that it is actually one of God's commands written in His own word.