Are you going to let all their old people fall apart while ours keep brisking around?"

Well, when we got back home, almost bursting with the news we couldn't share, Mother was brisking around gathering up some essential things.

Shifting shadows on a stone wall briefly produced the effect of a full skirt brisking around a corner.

"Not if zat's involved," he said, brisking his fingers at the chimney cloth.

Brisking right along, we come to Mr. Dine's bathrobes, of which there seem to be an endless supply.

Bent in the street, he imagined her brisking her palms at this throb, an abandoned chunk of delirium.

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.

I had Gregory go there to help Warin, while I had to be absent, but trade was brisking up nicely, they'll be hard pushed by now.

For he is the servant of the living God, duly and daily serving him, For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electric skin and glaring eyes, For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.