| 1. | And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | She dropped her head then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the door, which closed behind her. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Still, at about that moment, a brusque report burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent followed it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |