All 3 Uses of
curt
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- "It's time you were dressed," she said curtly.†
Chpt 4 *
- Marilla really did not know how to talk to the child, and her uncomfortable ignorance made her crisp and curt when she did not mean to be.†
Chpt 4
- Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the "chatter" until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(curt) brief to the point of rudeness