Brisk

Famous quotes containing the word brisk:

““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)

“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)