The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country…

“The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

— Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

— Gilbert White

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people…

— Shashi Tharoor

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes…

— Jane Austen

“He was tall and abrupt and exactly the kind of guy you wanted to be walking the streets with.”

— Markus Zusak

“Hey, I thought you wanted to know about the Sinsar Dubh!” I was so startled by his abrupt departure that I spoke without thinking.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“I have to go out,” she said, her words oddly curt and abrupt. “There‟s something I need to do.” “At half eight in the…

— Julia Quinn

“Things change. Sometimes it’s abrupt, knocking you off your feet as life throws a curveball nobody expected, turning worlds upside down and leaving those…

— J.M. Darhower

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope.…

— Graham Swift

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

— Don Henley

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

— Heinrich Heine

“God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.”

— Michael Joseph Brown

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and…

— Lucy Powell