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abrupt
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Les Miserables
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Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt changes of opinion.
Chpt 1.6 *

abrupt = sudden
Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:— "Who are you?"
At this abrupt query, the man started.
Chpt 4.12 *

abrupt = done in a rude or unfriendly manner
Napoleon, on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, turned round and said abruptly:— "Who is this good man who is staring at me?"†
Chpt 1.1
The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.†
Chpt 1.1
The exordium was abrupt.†
Chpt 1.1
The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on the shoulder of the man, and said to him:— "You are going to get out of here."†
Chpt 1.2
BOOK SECOND—THE FALL This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back abruptly.†
Chpt 1.2
He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:— "Ah!†
Chpt 1.2
Only, at intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny.†
Chpt 1.2
He opened his eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without knowing it, seated on his bed.†
Chpt 1.2
He opened it; but as a rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed it again immediately.†
Chpt 1.2
It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:— "Will you take yourself off!"†
Chpt 1.2
It was his last effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!"†
Chpt 1.2
However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating one element and clarifying the other.†
Chpt 1.2
It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be translated by: "What is that man, after all?†
Chpt 1.5
The small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, between her bare shoulders.†
Chpt 1.5
Madeleine made no other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:— "And what does this man say?"†
Chpt 1.6
Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy.†
Chpt 1.7
He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste which had not been apparent previously.†
Chpt 1.7
Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:— "Ah!†
Chpt 1.7
He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, cudgel, knapsack, into the fire.†
Chpt 1.7
Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright.†
Chpt 1.7
The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:— "You are very wicked; that you are!†
Chpt 1.7
A severe facade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular to the facade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt right angle.†
Chpt 2.1
On the day of battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and difficult of approach.†
Chpt 2.1
Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to Paris to announce that the battle was won.†
Chpt 2.1
From time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled.†
Chpt 2.1
The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused him from his lethargy.†
Chpt 2.1
The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:— "So you have no mother."†
Chpt 2.3
What she felt at that moment was a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, "Little one, you are the Queen of France."†
Chpt 2.3
"I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly.†
Chpt 2.3
He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries.†
Chpt 2.3
The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in search of.†
Chpt 2.3
A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot.†
Chpt 2.5
An edifice full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and then opening the horrible gates of the tomb!†
Chpt 2.5
For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal his other talents, which was an old dodge.†
Chpt 2.5
There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate.†
Chpt 2.8
He was kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind would have been magnificent.†
Chpt 3.2
One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation to him:— "By the way, have you any political opinions?"†
Chpt 3.4
These are conversations with abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly.†
Chpt 3.4
This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.†
Chpt 3.4
They soon elbowed him abruptly.†
Chpt 3.4
What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly closed again.†
Chpt 3.6
Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. Leblanc and his daughter, and went home.†
Chpt 3.6
The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly.†
Chpt 3.8
He was grave and abrupt.†
Chpt 3.8
Was Marius about to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information without which his life was so dark to him?†
Chpt 3.8
This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the same time.†
Chpt 3.8
He indulged in scowls and in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue.†
Chpt 3.8
The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black paper.†
Chpt 3.8

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(1) (abrupt as in: an abrupt change)
sudden and unexpected

or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle
(2) (abrupt as in: she is abrupt)
rude or unfriendly because of using too few words or moving too quickly
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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