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abrupt
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The Hoovering in the hall stopped abruptly.
p. 2.3 *

abruptly = suddenly
I got up and relit the candles, making mild remarks about his abrupt methods of entering rooms.
p. 12.3 *

abrupt = rude because of using too few words and moving too quickly
"Did you have many Scots in your charge, Claire?" he asked abruptly.
p. 14.2

abruptly = suddenly
He turned abruptly to me.
p. 569.2
I spoke a bit sharply, still nervous at having been abruptly abandoned with nothing but a large bloodstain for company.†
p. 6.4
Green as most of its neighbors, with the same rocky juts and crags, it had something different: a well-worn path leading up one side and disappearing abruptly behind a granite outcrop.†
p. 17.5
That abrupt transition is as close as I can come to describing the feeling I experienced, but it falls woefully short.†
p. 35.4
The sound of distant yelling changed abruptly.†
p. 36.4
I glanced wildly around, looking for a way out, but we were flush up against the foot of one of those towering granite cliffs that jut so abruptly from the soil of the Scottish Highlands.†
p. 39.3
My new companion pushed his way rapidly through a scrim of alder, made an abrupt turn around a large rock, and suddenly we were on a path.†
p. 40.8
Dougal stilled the racket with an abrupt gesture, though, and jerked his head toward the door.†
p. 43.4
I asked abruptly.†
p. 61.4
"She went with him," he said abruptly.†
p. 64.2
"And as I also told you before," I said abruptly, bringing him out of his momentary inattention, "I'd like to be on my way to France as soon as possible."†
p. 105.8
Refusing a second helping of stew, Jamie left the table abruptly, putting an end to Alec's tirade.†
p. 114.5
Colum's given orders—" She stopped abruptly, hand over her mouth.†
p. 119.3
We had almost reached this beacon when a hand suddenly descended on my mouth from behind and I was jerked abruptly off my feet.†
p. 131.7
The grunting and muffled cursing ceased abruptly with a thud and a rich Gaelic expletive.†
p. 131.8
The pipe music rose to a fervent pitch, and then abruptly ceased.†
p. 135.1
The squeal stopped abruptly.†
p. 141.4
"I'm leaving in two days' time," he said abruptly.†
p. 144.4
What would have happened, I wondered, had anyone been present on the hill of Craigh na Dun when I made my abrupt appearance?†
p. 155.7
I said abruptly, unable to stop myself.†
p. 159.6
The contest seemed to be evening out with the abrupt retirement of the stout party in green, dripping blood as the result of a well-placed elbow to the nose.†
p. 161.3
Suddenly he whirled back to me with an abrupt "Parlez-vous francais?"†
p. 171.4
To have those feelings abruptly turned inside out by his vicious attack was what was making me ill now.†
p. 174.4
Near a crossroads marked with a Pictish cross, Dougal abruptly reined to a halt.†
p. 174.9
He helped me down, then abruptly disappeared into the bushes, beckoning me to follow.†
p. 175.1
"How well d'ye know the Captain?" he asked abruptly.†
p. 175.9
Well," he said abruptly, catching sight of my expression, "I'll say no more except that he lived through it.†
p. 181.6
"There's a way out of it," he said abruptly.†
p. 182.5
I had been in a stir ever since our abrupt removal from Randall's office, and my level of agitation had now increased substantially, confronted with the choice in black and white, as it were.†
p. 185.7
"I want to talk to him," I said abruptly.†
p. 185.7
Dougal caught sight of me slowly descending, and abruptly stopped talking.†
p. 190.2
He looked up abruptly.†
p. 200.3
I could not recall the dream that woke me, but the abrupt plunge into reality was equally frightening.†
p. 211.5
What on earth—" I started to ask what it was that had made him spring so abruptly to the alert.†
p. 211.9
The column of his arm bent abruptly at the surface, seeming as disjointed as it had been when I had met him, little more than a month—my God, only a month?†
p. 220.1
He put his arm back over his eyes and stretched his head back, showing the place where the dark stubble of his sprouting beard stopped abruptly, just below the jaw.†
p. 230.6
Just beyond, the countryside changed abruptly, with huge heaps of granite rearing up from the earth, surrounded by clusters of sycamore and larch.†
p. 233.8
We were both nearing the end when Jamie froze abruptly.†
p. 262.9
The grass ceased abruptly a few feet from the trees, smothered by the encroaching heather.†
p. 267.7
I said abruptly.†
p. 296.1
"I havena told you how my father died," he said abruptly.†
p. 299.9
"I've not told anyone about it," he said abruptly.†
p. 303.6
Nothing to—" He was interrupted by my abrupt exit.†
p. 308.8
There was no time for her to ask questions, though, before the stir and bustle around us halted abruptly.†
p. 309.9
Granted, I had thought of her when the question of our abrupt marriage first occurred, and Jamie then had given no sign that she constituted an impediment so far as he was concerned.†
p. 310.9
How she had managed to make accommodation for two newlyweds in the time between Jamie's abrupt announcement to Colum and the time we had mounted the stairs was one of the mysteries of the ages.†
p. 311.8
He glared at me for a moment, then stood abruptly aside.†
p. 315.5

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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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