Which preposition to use with curtnesses

of Occurrences 5%

In an age when indolence or the study of French models has reduced our sentences to the economic curtness of telegraphic despatches, to the dimension of the epigram without its point, Mr. Choate is one of the few whose paragraphs echo with the long-resounding pace of Dryden's coursers, and who can drive a predicate and six without danger of an overset.

in Occurrences 2%

They look so strangely beside the brisk, dapper curtnesses in which metropolitan journals transact their daily squabbles!

about Occurrences 1%

There is an occasional curtness about Cambridge men that is hard but not impossible to reconcile with good feeling.

Which preposition to use with  curtnesses