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Did he never gaze on you with admiration--tenderly press your hand--drop an involantary tear-- and leave the room abruptly?" "Never (replied she) that I remember--he has always left the room indeed when his visit has been ended, but has never gone away particularly abruptly or without making a bow." Indeed my Love (said I) you must be mistaken--for it is absolutely impossible that he should ever have left you but with Confusion, Despair, and Precipitation.

He said "Good morning" abruptly and nodded, and then he snatched, rather than took, a newspaper from the table, and began to read it with the air of a master who seizes a pretext to escape the bore of conversing with an underling.

"Did I say I was going to decide that case?" said the Judge, abruptly, as if awakening from a dream.

Are we to suppose that each island is surrounded by a collar-like submarine ledge of rock, or by a great bank of sediment, ending abruptly where the reef ends?

At the first attempt I made to touch the personal question, she entreated me to spare her, and abruptly left the room.

Now it was as if something turned over, and the point of view altered abruptly. There was no sensible transition from one state of mind to the other.

"What's the matter with you, Carey?" he said abruptly.

Red-Eye abruptly ceased his breast-beating and tooth-grinding, and ran across the timber-jam to the shore.

The man stopped abruptly. There was an angry scowl on his face.

Our readers have been able to observe, that a certain amount of time must have already elapsed from the moment when Jupiter had retired beneath the tapestry to the instant when the author of the new morality had thus abruptly revealed himself to the innocent admiration of Gisquette and Liénarde.

This was the matter: the trail of the young man had abruptly ended, and all beyond was smooth, unbroken snow.

It breaks off abruptly in the middle of a sentence.