briskness

How To Use briskness In A Sentence

• Then the movement and the chill evening air seemed to restore her usual briskness, and she proceeded to describe to the children the exact situation of the "appartement" which she and Adolphe would occupy on their return to Paris, and make many brilliant plans for the future. Susan A Story for Children
• It would also have full marks for briskness and aroma. Wild Sweet Orange (Tazo) | Tea Derivations
• Moving the ball with briskness, thus resulting in open jumpers from 15 to 20 feet for Celtic distance shooters Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson and, of course, Larry Bird, Boston blissfully bombed away from long-range. One Season
• And all these vehicles went by with a cheerful briskness; there was hardly ever a block for them in the traffic. Max
• With determined briskness, Amy stood up and put their cups back on the tray.
• He ushered them all into the stagecoach with a briskness that somewhat annoyed Tabitha.
• It was pretty hot out, a change from the briskness of the past few days.
• Not even the breachiest of breachy young heifers could be expected to tinkle a cowbell with such briskness. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
• Upon which design of variety it is, that the poets never represent the same persons always victorious or prosperous or acting with the same constant tenor of virtue; — yea, even the gods themselves, when they engage in human actions, are not represented as free from passions and errors; — lest, for the want of some difficulties. and cross passages, their poems should be destitute of that briskness which is requisite to move and astonish the minds of men. Essays and Miscellanies
• The underlying aural signature was somewhat agricultural, but when hammered hard the engine snarled and yanked the car up to merging or passing speed with delightful briskness. Mini Cooper convertible is cute but quirky