| 1. | Well, let's brisk up a bit here, and jump a year. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 2. | "What's his goods, father" asked the brisk Young Jerry. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | "But tell me, Gabriel," said Aunt Kate, with brisk tact. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | "Thank you." Tommy closed the notebook with a brisk snap. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | In five minutes a brisk young doctor arrived, hastily summoned. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | Finally he took the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | When the brisk nectar overlook'd the brim. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
