All 12 Uses

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Queen of Attolia
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He stopped pacing abruptly and turned his back on his queen...
Chpt 11 *

abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
The road he ran on came to an abrupt dead end at the town wall.†
Chpt 1
The queen left her chair abruptly and went to stand in the doorway of the bedchamber.†
Chpt 4
"Eddis should have married me," Sounis said abruptly.†
Chpt 7
"Get out," the queen ordered abruptly.†
Chpt 9
The front two legs of his chair dropped to the floor abruptly, and he opened his eyes to glare at her.†
Chpt 10
"Hmm?" asked the magus, puzzled at the abrupt change in topic.†
Chpt 11
Caught in an abrupt adolescence, she was too tall and ungraceful.†
Chpt 12
"They can't bombard the castle without Piloxides's hearing the guns," the queen said abruptly.†
Chpt 14
It heeled abruptly as the sail filled, and Attolia shifted her weight.†
Chpt 15
"I listened outside your cell door every night before I sent you back to Eddis," Attolia said abruptly.†
Chpt 15
"Attolia had no treaties with the Mede," she said abruptly.†
Chpt 19

Definitions:

(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)