Brisk

Famous quotes containing the word brisk:

“The brisk fond lackey to fetch and carry,
The true, sick-hearted slave,
Expect him not in the just city
And free land of the grave.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

““I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 1–4)

“The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)