brisk
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A brisk walk through this year’s picks with intriguing bloodlines:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
A brisk north-easterly wind means that eastern parts of England will feel a drop off in temperatures.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
On a recent day, business was still brisk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Wealthy buyers who are immune to the challenges of today’s high-interest-rate environment are driving brisk sales of luxury homes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
But as I struggle to keep up with Rani's brisk pace, I start thinking I need to do more than hope.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
While heatwave conditions will continue across many parts of England and Wales through this coming week, a brisker wind means temperatures have dropped a degree or two relative to recent days.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Fan reaction has been positive to the brisker pace with more action. And players have made a great adjustment to the changes.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
As a northeasterner, I've long associated back to school with the cooler, brisker days of pumpkin spice season.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly accelerated in August to the briskest pace since April and firms reported input price pressures eased to the lowest since late 2020.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022
The planets are putting on an amazing celestial show nightly, and many regions of the country are about to host some of the briskest bird traffic of the year.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Ms. Mearns, never rushed by this, creates marvelous dynamic variety within it, often finding time to phrase with seeming slowness, while rising to its briskest passages as if riding the full power of a wave.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
British factories followed Asia's lead, increasing activity at the fastest rate in seven months while creating new jobs in at the briskest pace in more than three years.
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2014
Once within the house, however, he behaved with the briskest determination.
From The Blue Pavilions by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
After a while the party started on their way once more feeling greatly brisked up.
From The Adventures of Akbar by Shaw, Byam
Leaving the pace to the piebald, he brisked along in review.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
The old landlord brisked up wonderfully at the prospect of such a struggle.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley
"When I was in Edinburgh," I replied, "I had not the spirit of a pooked hen, but holding the banner at Sanquhar hath wondrously brisked me."
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Oh, that's all right," Hewson brisked up in response, as he took the cigar St. John offered him.
From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean
The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.
From The Blue Pavilions by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
She was relieved to see that the oddly assorted men and women about her were brisking up, and beginning to talk, even to laugh, with one another.
From From out the Vasty Deep by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
“Oh rather,” he assented, brisking up at the prospect of a row.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
"Such a charming musical evening—such a treat!" said she, brisking up, and quite unaware of what had been passing round her the last two hours.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
As I write, the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam, and shutters; a strong draught sweeps round the balcony; it looks doubtful for to-morrow.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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