1 Suddenly he heard the brisk play of sleigh-bells and a cutter passed him, drawn by a free-going horse.
2 Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
3 For a few minutes they went through a brisk drill that brought perspiration to their foreheads and cheers and applause from the audience.
4 Her voice was brisk and decisive and she made up her mind instantly and with no girlish shilly- shallying.
5 He said the books at the store had to be balanced and business was brisk enough now to give him little time to attend to this in working hours.
6 But, she felt approvingly, as she discovered her career of town-planning, she was now roused to being brisk and efficient herself.
7 Shopping was a delight of brisk conferences.
8 For some days we had very little wind; it was not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
9 Drawn into the waiting boat, they were quickly brought to the deck; but Tashtego was long in coming to, and Queequeg did not look very brisk.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 10 "Wal, yes, tol'able fast, ther dying is; what with the 'climating and one thing and another, they dies so as to keep the market up pretty brisk," said Haley.'
11 The different men on the list were soon knocked off at prices which showed a pretty brisk demand in the market; two of them fell to Haley.
12 I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world; and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.'
13 But, Sir Spaniel, there are some stars that--ahem--stay fixed; that shine, to put it in a nutshell, never so bright as by a sea-coal fire on a brisk morning.
14 They had no alive happiness, no matter how brisk and good-looking they were.
15 Finally he took the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND