brisk
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She's got no more heart in her brist than that.
From The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Worthington, Elizabeth Strong
There's no process of ratiosheeneetion that'll be iver eeble to overturrun the sintimints of jewty and dilicacy that spring spontaneous in the brist.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by De Mille, James
She took out wid her her siven childer, leading little Phelim by the hand, wid her babe at the brist, and hersilf in a familiar way into the bargin.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Also, an old term for a heavy surf or broken water on a sea-coast; by some called brist.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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