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On a brisk October morning, a coyote ventured onto a mound of dirt in Agoura Hills and inadvertently became a pioneer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
After a pianissimo, ambient rumble combined with a brisk layer of tapping, both produced inside the piano, a gentle, melancholy theme is played on the keyboard, repeating and gradually expanding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Theater operators have seen brisk sales of snacks, popcorn, and limited-edition movie themed merchandise.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Moderate activities included brisk walking, doubles tennis, leisurely swimming, and household tasks such as cleaning windows, vacuuming, or mowing the lawn.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
He looked round at his bedraggled, shivering comrades and then at Kehaar, spruce and brisk on the stern.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The show, the first in a five-part series, is considerably brisker than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
While heatwave conditions will continue across many parts of England and Wales through this coming week, a brisker wind means temperatures have dropped a degree or two relative to recent days.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
A brisker, more classically mounted western might have kept her offscreen, relegating her to the sheriff’s back story.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
As a northeasterner, I've long associated back to school with the cooler, brisker days of pumpkin spice season.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly accelerated in August to the briskest pace since April and firms reported input price pressures eased to the lowest since late 2020.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022
The planets are putting on an amazing celestial show nightly, and many regions of the country are about to host some of the briskest bird traffic of the year.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Ms. Mearns, never rushed by this, creates marvelous dynamic variety within it, often finding time to phrase with seeming slowness, while rising to its briskest passages as if riding the full power of a wave.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
British factories followed Asia's lead, increasing activity at the fastest rate in seven months while creating new jobs in at the briskest pace in more than three years.
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2014
Our people began their march for Leon at eight a.m. the van consisting of eighty of the briskest men, being led by Captain Townly.
His footsteps brisked up, as he met and treated them to a discreetly sympathetic and intelligent observation, only to lag again wearily as soon as they had passed.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
The night air and moonlight brisked him up; he felt a reaction towards Sabina and perceived that she must have suffered a good deal.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
So the sad days wore on, and the fell-side air had not yet brisked up Emmanuel's adopted daughter as his sister prophesied.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
She brisked and sparkled—the years fell off from her—she started off looking fairly girlish in her hope and enthusiasm.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Modestine brisked up her pace for perhaps three steps, and then relapsed into her former minuet.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
She was relieved to see that the oddly assorted men and women about her were brisking up, and beginning to talk, even to laugh, with one another.
From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
"Such a charming musical evening—such a treat!" said she, brisking up, and quite unaware of what had been passing round her the last two hours.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.
From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
“Oh rather,” he assented, brisking up at the prospect of a row.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
As I write the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam: and shutters; a strong draught sweeps round the balcony; it looks doubtful for to-morrow.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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