"No, no, no," he says briskly, checking himself and suddenly keen to move swiftly on.
His wife is kindly but briskly overbearing, checking to see if he took his echinacea and scolding him for buying fax paper at Staples with the wrong credit card.
When the sightseers had gone, we sent for the proprietor, who came over to us, walking briskly and only once or twice checking his course by touching a table.
She read briskly, making swift checks beside her selected answers, and when she was finished, she handed the pages across the desk to Martina Miller, who gave her a round of pills.
Accelerate briskly from stop lights.
For example, inspectors sent to a council estate in Runcorn ought to get round fairly briskly, unless they're really diligent and go: "We'd better check inside each flat, in case the kitchen is made of panda fur or the toilet's been painted by Picasso.
Curiosity about what funny face, current surroundings, or racy imagery their friends have just sent them creates goads people to check Snapchat as soon as their pinged, keeping conversations moving along briskly.
I pretend to be incredibly busy checking voicemail in order to avoid glancing her way as I briskly walk by.
She walked briskly through the endless aisles of exhibitors, stopping occasionally to snap a picture or to check a price, her color commentary mingling with social prophecy by way of furniture design.
Setting the scene as the play opens, he checks the hour on his cellphone, checks his notes on a yellow pad and briskly marches us through the geography of the town and introduces its principal players in an almost brusque, offhand manner.
