Short reading for one in the nick

Usage examples of curt.

To Curt Newton, who had followed the shadow of that glory far back toward its source, the very stones of these ruins spoke of cosmic tragedy, of the agelong night that succeeded the blazing highest noon of human splendor.

It needed replacing, and with a curt warning to Angevine, and to the sound of her horrified yells, he began to dismantle it.

O warrior, and while at first hearing it may seem to some to be curt and unseemly, not to mention saucy, I feel that it proceeds from none but the chastest of motives.

Charles was getting more and more nervous under the curt questioning of this well-dressed clubman with the piercing eyes.

Valgard, gaunter and grimmer and curter of speech as the months wore on, sought to raise flagging spirits.

Through the door Clavain saw a throng of media people, then someone gliding through them, fielding questions with only the curtest of answers.

All the same, the fuss they were making of this young monk, while according only the curtest of nods to the Brigadier, so disgusted him that he was in a hurry to get away.

Gilwater road, thanked Nancy in the curtest polite phrase, and departed.

I said hello once or twice, in passing, but he would give me the curtest possible nod and freeze me with his expression.

Greta Seidenheim clacked away on her machine as if she were recording the curtest, the tritest of business letters.

Ralph, rising with ill-concealed agitation, and stalking out of the room, without the curtest leave-taking.

Ferdy was on the point of suggesting, had not the Viscount nipped such friendly overtures in the bud by scowling upon his victim, offering him the curtest of apologies, handing him his card, climbing into his curricle, and driving off without another word.

After the play he went home, with the curtest of congratulations to the cast and the stage crew.

The curtest, least graphic description of the biting days and nights in the trenches set the lad shivering.

At the bottom of the Row they stopped, shook hands, and with the curtest of nods parted.