Like a March wind

Usage examples of brisk.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

Heartened by his dinner and two extra whiskies and sodas, Captain Baster set out for Colet House at a brisk pace.

Buffy was with her, and they were following a Bringer, who was darting through the darkness in a brisk and furtive way.

Meshi was a bustler, whose brisk busy movements around the room could make it seem crowded with only a few people in it.

Jonathan proposed a brisk walk and Mandrake, knowing his host shared his own loathing for this sort of exercise, grinned to himself.

Mevrouw Pette was young, stylish and pretty, with a pleasant smiling face and a brisk voice.

Kingsley returned to the house after a brisk walk round the Nortonstowe estate, to find aniseed smoke prevading his room.

City clothes, at that Clothing designed for the temperaturecontrolled atmosphere of Rhomatum Tower, and hardly appropriate for a brisk Khoramali morning.

With a sigh, Punky reached into his vest pocket and deactivated his digital phone with a brisk little flick.

Beneath his window was a neat garden, scruffy now with autumn brownness, in the center of which was a formal quatrefoil pond, the water green with algae and rippling in the brisk wind.

Closing his eyes, he inhaled deeply of the brisk, unpolluted air, its innate refreshingness enhanced by the extra oxygen being pumped out by the forest.

Aunt Hatt took charge of him with a brisk efficiency that was tremendously comforting, and Guffy left him in her care when with Eager-Wright and young Hal they set out to search the house for Amanda and those unlucky watchdogs, Lugg and Scatty Williams.

Judge Schor whom we believed to be our enemy was brisk and matter-of-fact and must have learned to disguise his repugnance for Reddy.

There followed a brisk exchange of missiles, also ending in a scoreless draw, and subjecting the two humans to nothing worse than one more strange noise.

Surprises beating the ball about the field in a brisk, seamanlike fashion, but by now it was too late: as far as Stephen was concerned cricket was marked down for ever as an intolerably insipid pastime, decorative enough for half an hour, perhaps, but not to be compared with hurling for speed, skill, grace of movement, and dramatic fire.