Which preposition to use with brusque
Mr. Lossing graphically described it as follows: "Nicolls was tall, athletic and about forty-five years of age, a soldier, haughty and sometimes very irritable and brusque in speech when excited.
The young man was so brusque about it, however, that other table mates ceased quizzing him.
At ten o'clock M. Jean Duval arrived, as was his wont, supercilious and brusque as usual.
The more wealthy people generally spend some time in New Orleans every year, which makes them much more sociable, and much less brusque than their neighbours.
Probably there was at the back of his attentions to Mrs Ottley a vague idea that he wanted to get her on his sidethat she might be a useful ally; but he was always charming to elderly women, and inclined to be brusque with younger ones, excepting Edith; he remembered his own mother with so great a cult of devotion, and his late wife with such a depressed indifference.