How To Use Briskly In A Sentence

The blow to his head must have concussed him, for he saw two middle-aged women straighten up and walk briskly to the I.V. unit.
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
Beat the eggs whites briskly until soft peaks form.
He tried to give her a kiss on the cheek but she resisted his advance and pushed him away from her face briskly.
I answered briskly, for there was no time to be circumlocutional. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863

In Lima, a Peruvian guide warned us not to go out on foot and, if so, to walk briskly.
With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
I walked briskly up the driveway of Sean's house, the street light illuminating me.
‘I think it would be best if I took my own daughter home,’ Mr. Ainsley responded briskly with a hint of dubiousness.
While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
Autumn shivered as she stepped from a streetcar, pulled up the collar on her coat and walked briskly towards the Doghouse. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Two men and a woman were walking briskly down the sidewalk toward him.
It was washed down with a draught of Yule-ale that reamed briskly in a corner of the kitchen.
Use a rough cloth like burlap to rub briskly across the grain.
I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
I moved briskly toward the Emperor's tower, striding through the corridor toward his private lift, the entrance to which was flanked by two Imperial Guards in crimson robes. This Is Tense
As was his wont he walked briskly, pausing occasionally to inspect a young camellia bud or to throw a stick for Charlie. DOUBLE DECEIT
The trial had started on the Monday and by this time there was a flurry of black-cloaked ushers briskly walking through the building, desperately looking for a policeman.
Nearby, the celebrated "Self-Portrait with a Palette," made in Paris that fall, introduces the intense 25-year-old artist; he glances slightly away, his heavy-lidded dark eyes briskly outlined in an "Iberian" mask. The Cubist Circle
She was going to appreciate every second of this day, she decided, shampooing her hair briskly.
At the end of the massage, briskly rub your feet to revitalize your energy.
Walking briskly can burn off a lot of calories.
Berlin Barker stepped forth briskly, urging the umpire to keep the game in motion, his bat held as if he intended to try for a safe bingle. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
Let us go on with our work as briskly as possible, whatever temporary discouragements we may meet with.
While younger men floundered, he had made his way up to a crag as briskly as he might have walked the quarterdeck. Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping ahead of the rhinos
However, presenting a slow first act and briskly paced second and third acts does create some disorientation.
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the rider expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian gamin, who ran along by asinus’s side. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
If I hold the end just the right way and breathe out briskly, I can make a sound just like a kazoo.
Keep whisking briskly, and make sure each tiny addition of oil is emulsified before adding more.
He rubbed his face briskly with the towel.
They entered the cleared space before M'tela's palace with colours flying and snare drums tapping briskly. The Leopard Woman
I went down the agenda as briskly as possible, divided up the list of women who had baked last year and ought to be approached again, stuck Sally with the job of designing the booth and the printed labels, asked Jane if she was ready to launch her savarin. Incubus
Simmer briskly to consolidate, add the beans — podded or not — and the fried meatballs. Times, Sunday Times
Eve walked briskly down the corridor to her son's room.
The young herdsman briskly mounted a horse that was inclined to act up with an unaccustomed rider.
Deep in an underground laboratory, almost directly below this sign, Norman Osborn stepped briskly down a hallway. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
The young herdsman briskly mounted a horse that was inclined to act up with an unaccustomed rider.
The Turkish prime minister supplies us with an answer when he pops up with a foreword to the catalogue, in which he turns briskly to Turkey's hopes for entry into the European Union.
A couple of moments do flag, but Millennium artistic director John Gunn mostly keeps his actors moving briskly through their paces.
Lady hesitated for a moment, watching the two in front of her with an inquisitive look before trotting off briskly to catch up.
During New York City's recent Fashion Week, LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton — a 156-year-old company best known for its stodgy suitcases, which are selling briskly even as newer offerings like watches suffer — held an event called "The Art of Craftsmanship," to educate young hip designers on the importance of old-fashioned values such as artisanship and the mastery of traditional skills. Classic to the Core
No more than eight years old he walks briskly with a slight skip in his step past the monument towards the houses beyond.
`It'll do you good to get your glad rags on and stop behaving like an old curmudgeon ,' she'd told Tara briskly. JUST BETWEEN US
The one major criticism that might be levelled against Ned Kelly is that it tries to squeeze too much into a briskly paced, conventional feature and consequently lacks a little humour or daring.
She walked briskly, carrying a manila file in one hand and a bunch of keys in the other.
Ever mindful of the value of the day's booty(Sentencedict), the ownership of the halter was briskly disputed.
A couple of moments do flag, but Millennium artistic director John Gunn mostly keeps his actors moving briskly through their paces.
He carefully dried his pubic hair and groin and briskly scrubbed his torso.
Briskly determined, she climbed the steps of Number 17. Reaching for the knocker, she froze, her hand in midair. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The sun was setting briskly over the shimmering ocean horizon.
As she strolled briskly down the sidewalk, Lewanna pulled a large brown clip out of her purse.
In a heavy frying pan, briskly sear the steaks on one side until well browned, turn once and cook briefly for a medium-rare result.
Sara picked up one of Ana's two bags and started briskly for the stairway, chattering in an enchanting English drawl about how "disorientated" jet lag left a person, and then about the weather. A Darker Place
The postboy was driving briskly through the open streets, and past the handsome and well – lighted shops that intervene between the outskirts of the town and the Old Royal Hotel, before Mr. Pickwick had begun to consider the very difficult and delicate nature of the commission which had carried him thither. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The first one mounted the runway and briskly walked its length, barefoot on the nail points.
Briskly quartered tomatoes lay on the chopping board next to a sprig of spring onions with wispy, soiled roots and fresh green stalks, bound by a blue elastic band.
Emerging from beneath the spray of the shower, she dried herself briskly before dressing with impatient fingers.
We moved briskly along at the edge of Sloan's Lake, when Fred stopped short with such suddenness that he fairly yanked my arm out of the socket.
RIA Novosti The element's rarity in ore form makes it more valuable than gold "Periodic Tales" disposes briskly with this familiar history; Mr. Aldersey-Williams wants to raise our eyes to a more expansive panorama, a weave of stories that reveals the richness of human activity across time and cultures. Periodic Table Talk
I've been briskly informed in a previous comment trail that it's "wreak" havoc and thus also chaos not wreck but other than that, what's not to love about this. 12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006
Well, there was a good deal of laughing and jeering, especially on the part of the men (these were idlers: the fishermen were all gone away in the boats); but the women, who had to provide for their households, knew when they had a cheap bargain; and the sale of the 'cuddies' proceeded briskly. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
Moving briskly, Wade dug out a plastic garbage bag, marched into the living room, and collected the dead houseplants.
After the crowd had laughed at him and the small boys had "guyed" him till he was ready to quit, I stepped up briskly and said: Twenty Years of Hus'ling
Under New Labour, Tory policies have been dusted down and briskly put into effect without any real opposition.
We too must fly, so stride briskly over the bridge to Boat Of Garten, from where a steam railway plies its way across the moor to Aviemore, giving another magnificent aspect of the mountains.
The fog burned away as the morning drew on, and Bahzell's heart rose as his ill-assorted party moved more briskly than he'd dared hope.
Her face became even more troubled, and she trotted off briskly towards their monument.
Nobody had seen what had happened and the train whisked briskly away round Rilla of Ingleside
‘Good afternoon highness,’ the maid briskly said as she unstopped one of the bottles and lifted the tumbler.’
Joan and the rest of us followed it so briskly that we outspeeded our forces and had the English behind us as well as before. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1
‘Aye, that's so - thank God,’ Marion said briskly as she poured water into the bronze ewer on the table near the curtained bed.
So she stepped around briskly, and spread her snow-white table-cloth, and put on her cups and saucers, and plates, and the castor -- (yes, the _castor_ on the _tea_ table! for they didn't care a pin for fashion); and when she had cooked her supper, she looked at the clock. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
I shelved the oddity, smiled, located Sophie Brandau in the glittering throng, whispered to Tye to have somebody spill a little vino rosso on the lovely Sophie’s dress, caught up a silver tray — gadrooned, my favourite style — and briskly went to start my compulsory courting. The Great California Game
When we were green and the war of the city still went forrad briskly. The Waste Lands
Flags flap briskly in a stiffening wind, providing the only sounds beyond the clicking of cameras and the distant murmur of cars making their slow, careful way to the site.
`after lunch,' she said briskly
With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I will be briskly perambulating.
She turned around briskly, to face the gapes and open mouths of many of the new recruits to the Armed Guards, the females of whom were gripping their pictures of them.
He growled lowly, but then nodded toward her and gestured briskly toward the stage.
Calculations of the cooling rates imply that the gas should have cooled briskly and pooled in the centers of halos, leaving intergalactic space virtually empty.
I got my musket, and Tommy Staytape armed himself with the goose -- a deadly weapon, whoever may get a clour with it -- and Benjie took the poker in one hand, and the tongs in the other; and out we all marched briskly, to make the Frenchman, that was locked up from the light of day in the coal-house, surrender. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
A non-inattentive hipster-looking dude with wire-rimmed silver-framed glasses, a goatee, and a “Superchunk” T-shirt opened the door briskly. Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)]
She brushed a lock of shoulder-length silvery hair briskly behind her ear as she spoke.
He pockets his cuff links, then briskly, with a snapping sound, rolls his shirtsleeves to his elbows.
And there, among them, Liat Chokavi walking briskly to the east, toward the warehouses and laborers 'quarters, the dyeworks and the weavers. A Shadow in Summer
Therefore the work was pushed on briskly.
They were mounted upon horses and mules, jacks and jennets, and one of them had put a "McClellan saddle" and a gag-bit upon one of the black polled cattle which abound in that region, and which ambled easily and briskly along with his rider's feet just brushing the low "poverty-pines" which grew by the roadside. Bricks without Straw A Novel
Two men and a woman were walking briskly down the sidewalk toward him.
The cartwright nodded and strode briskly off down the lane towards the cluster of buildings at the front of the Waymeet, presumably to get his partner, tools, and the new axle. The Robin And The Kestrel
He saluted the lieutenant who returned the salute and walked briskly off.
I downed the rest of the mojito and the ice water in a beat and briskly walked out, turning the corner to avoid any encounters.
Back in the en suite bathroom, he briskly cleans his teeth and brushes his hair.
Mum went briskly into the kitchen, taking us with her, and started getting the tea-things ready on the tray-mobile.
Matching the audience in age, the young, international cast played briskly and energetically, using simplified staging on a nearly bare stage.
Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chir - ped like fairy pipers at a feast. Little Women
The Countess walked briskly through the candlelit foyer, taking a smart glimpse of herself in a mirrored sconce. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Sinclair began to smile, but Velma clapped him briskly on the back. THE SCAR
Marc trotted briskly down our drive, as I stood watching him.
The conical shape of the structure makes it stable in the high winds that often blow briskly across the Great Plains, and closable smoke flaps keep driving rains outside.
I give a curt nod to Daddy, whirl around in place, and walk briskly to the pod.
The 30-minute flight crosses majestic mountain peaks haloed by rain clouds that feed the waterfalls flowing briskly down their flanks.
He waved his hand impatiently as he quickly sidestepped the waterfall and walked briskly down the shaded stone path.
A rabbit in its last convulsive leap appeared briefly, and the white-haired one stepped briskly forward to pick it up.
she walked briskly in the cold air
If the Greens, the nationalists and uKIP feel miffed at being left out of our own TV debates, they can reflect that the Farmer Labor Party of Iowa and the Greenback Party were brushed aside just as briskly in 1960. Home | Mail Online
She whipped a plastic bag from beneath the sink and started packing ornaments, briskly, like baggers at the Acme.
In the dim morning light they walked briskly to a little cove in the river, where Micah's birchen canoe lay, and found it already stored with supplies for the excursion. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
With any luck at all, they could sail their fleet of ten little splintered and gouged boats right to the mouth of Back's Great Fish River, pause at the mouth to rerig for river running, and — with only the slightest help from northwest winds and men at the oars — head briskly upstream. The Terror
But the next minute flinging away dull care, he inquired briskly: “Can you play tipcat, Aunt Mary?” Australia Felix
He stood outside, briskly polishing the insteps of his brogues.
The crowd then briskly moves to the trackside to watch the start and follow the colours of their jockey around the circuit to the finish line.
a "McClellan saddle" and a gag-bit upon one of the black polled cattle which abound in that region, and which ambled easily and briskly along with his rider's feet just brushing the low "poverty-pines" which grew by the roadside. Bricks Without Straw
Left alone, Buck shook his head briskly to clear it from his vague dreamy thoughts and crawled from the cave.
The really nasty bikers are easy to spot; they are the ones with long hair flying briskly in the wind, riding really fast.
He walked briskly along the path swinging his rolled-up umbrella.
As a briskly efficient technician attached the rope I had a most odd sense of dislocation.
The last thing one hears of her, she is tripping up stairs to bed, talking lightsomely or warbling; and one meets her in the morning, the very image of bright morn itself, smiling briskly at you, so that one takes her for a promise of cheerfulness through the day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
He didn't debate; he collected briskly the Captain's salute, and strode off to attend to his exigent duties. COUP D'ETAT
Charles offered him a curt nod, before turning on his heel and briskly striding out, his polished black boots beating out a rapid tattoo on the varnished floor.
Meanwhile, she stepped out briskly along the road in the direction of Ste Cecilie, the tiny village where the Sheppards lived. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Add the herbs and wine or vermouth and boil briskly until the liquid has almost evaporated.
He walked briskly along the path swinging his rolled-up umbrella.
Beat the eggs whites briskly until soft peaks form.
He walked along briskly, twirling his cane in the air.
The crowd then briskly moves to the trackside to watch the start and follow the colours of their jockey around the circuit to the finish line.
I rub his ears briskly and pet him.
She did not seem to mind the cloying saccharine smell as she briskly walked past rows of incapacitated men, they heads so filled with the narcotic fumes that it was a miracle that they were still alive.
Beat the eggs whites briskly until soft peaks form.
Back in the en suite bathroom, he briskly cleans his teeth and brushes his hair.
Recover and cock, as before directed for the center rank, and, as the firelock is brought to the recover, step briskly to the right: a full pace, at the same time placing the left heel about six inches before the point of the right foot.
And so upon that solitude the day was born like a new miracle with only one visible worshipper, and the sun rose up like a star and was then a convexed line of fire, and presently it ate a little into the prairie; and the world was light and rose and green and very near me, so that I sighed a little and then walked back briskly to the camp and raised a loud shout, not to the sun, but to my fellow-men. A Tramp's Notebook
He bowed and walked off briskly through the ticket barriers, strutting like some sort of peacock.
The man looked up, his eyes went wide, then he briskly exited the market.
Briskly froth the mixture with a small metal whisk or bamboo tea whisk until a blanket of foam coats the top, like an espresso.
Some of them walked alone, briskly, in a great hurry; others demonstrated a skilful tardiness, stopping to talk politely to a journalist, and to give him notes of the day's meeting, or continuing, with a 'confrere' who was not an Academician, the conversation begun in the room of the 'pas-perdus'; it was the Bourse of consultations that was just closed. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The Countess walked briskly through the candlelit foyer, taking a smart glimpse of herself in a mirrored sconce. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Emerging from beneath the spray of the shower, she dried herself briskly before dressing with impatient fingers.
Anything faintly or potentially malodorous is despatched briskly.
Gibbs, three weeks ago at a preseason game in St. Louis, walked briskly to the podium to open a postgame press conference.
Briskly stir in 4 1/2 cups flour to make a soft dough.
She threw her head back, squared her shoulders and walked briskly toward the elevator.
Ava shook her head briskly, her lank hair flying around her shoulders.
Ord briskly dismisses the "feelgood activity" often associated with volunteering, and makes the more impulsive, less carefully researched charitable giving many people engage in sound like a kind of egomania. The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving
They briskly exchanged greetings before starting the session.
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale is a winter-time favorite, a zestily hopped ale that briskly wakes your tastebuds.
She walked briskly through the mean and dirty streets.
Clarke writes briskly, his narrative strictly chronological, starting with Judy's parents and ending with her funeral.
Could it be that the reputation of Mr. Marin, whose subject matter is as American as his briskly improvisational brushwork, suffers from our nagging sense of cultural inferiority? How a Great American Artist Vanished From the Critical Scope
He walked along briskly, twirling his cane in the air.
I felt like one of those guys who's walking briskly down the street text messaging and is suddenly knocked cold by a streetlight stanchion he didn't see. Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
We walk briskly on the soft sand of its otherwise-dry bed, the two Quechua Indians egging on the llamas with whistles and cries.
After standing in the middle of this takeaway, hoovering his chicken up before they'd even finished preparing the rest of his order, what does he briskly spin around and bark at me, in front of a crowd of at least 20?
The boarding of the wooden dock creaked and groaned under their feet as they walked briskly to the waterfront, they walked in silence, Vicky knew how hard this must be for him.
She briskly eviscerated the bird, whose entrails still gleamed in a heap of mucilage beside the fire. RUSHING TO PARADISE
He tried to give her a kiss on the cheek but she resisted his advance and pushed him away from her face briskly.
Some of Richards's work smacks of the laboratory, and isn't helped by his charmless, bloodless prose style, laced as it is with briskly self-satisfied flourishes which his opponents saw as insufferable arrogance.
There was something about his look that made me curious, I don't know why, and I began to walk briskly with the idea of overtaking him, when of a sudden his hat blew off and came bounding along the pavement to my feet. The House of Souls
Remembering his duty, he strode briskly up the stairs, keeping his eyes open for any suspicious signs.
He stuffed this objet trove, whatever it was, into a weskit pocket without looking at it, and carried on briskly. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Moving briskly, Wade dug out a plastic garbage bag, marched into the living room, and collected the dead houseplants.
We highly recommend this gorgeous, briskly-told picture, which avoids all the usual conventions of the true-life disaster tale.
Take a knife (a 'spurtle' is the proper utensil) in the right hand, and some Scotch, or coarse, oatmeal in the left hand, and sprinkle the meal in gradually, stirring it briskly all the time; if any lumps form draw them to the side of the pan and crush them out. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
The gallows humour during the interval suggested Strauss had lost something in the interpretation of bouncebackability and nothing changed that view after Hashim Amla and Smith opened briskly. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
He stuffed this objet trove, whatever it was, into a weskit pocket without looking at it, and carried on briskly. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
A break in the crowd gave me a full view of her as she stepped briskly down the steps, with her small square leather bag in her hand.
Her father walked briskly to the door, and latched it shut, before having a seat at the counter.
Daily rubbing briskly over the whole body with the cold-drawn oil of mustard for a quarter-of-an-hour will have this effect, and even by itself may cure. Papers on Health
Mrs. Goudie and Mary pushed back their chairs with a horrid scrooping noise, Mavis got up briskly, the baby awoke and began to cry. The Devil's Garden
And with a succinct bow, he sidestepped to avoid further questioning and briskly started for the other side of the garden.
Two men and a woman were walking briskly down the sidewalk toward him.
This tally included briskly-taken goals from the elusive Fabio Cretaro and Brian Walsh, an extremely reliable forward.
He stood outside, briskly polishing the insteps of his brogues.
Final game programs were in plentiful supply and selling briskly. Yankees collect whatever they can as remembrances
The moment I lifted the 'portiere' the girl jumped up briskly and regarded me with a touch of haughtiness, meant, I think, to hide a slight confusion. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Men have so often been associated with tautness and tightness, moving briskly in tubular clothes like robots coated in cloth.
The first egg was smooth and warm in his grasp as he briskly cracked it on the metal rim and tipped in the contents.
Not so for the two who left the bus, who walked briskly around the signs and began their steep trek as if the words ‘respect’ and ‘sacred’ were no more than blowies to be brushed away.
The moment the interview finished, Cameron marched briskly away to his next appointment, with not even a backward glance at his rival.
She walked briskly, carrying a manila file in one hand and a bunch of keys in the other.
She trotted briskly into the ring and saluted the judge and then she started.
Agatha was talking briskly enough but Tom sensed that she was putting on a brave front.
Putting the haversack onto her shoulders, she walked briskly down the street, turning the first corner she saw.
There was something about his look that made me curious, I don't know why; and I began to walk briskly, with the idea of overtaking him, when of a sudden his hat blew off, and came bounding along the pavement to my feet. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories
The receptionist was briskly efficient.
The therapist brushes your body briskly, back and front, concentrating on ankles, backs of knees, underarms and neck: areas where lymph nodes are densely packed.
Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, loversand herself. Life Sentences by Laura Lippman: Book summary

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