brisker

But the melancholy fact remains to be told that, haranguing all day long, the wilder grew the anecdotes of Palamone, the brisker was his trade.

The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

(This reminds me: the "brisker" -- it looked like a bread box, but it had a mild electrical charge that kept crackers and cereal crispy -- has finally had to be taken to the dump after many years of service.

Jenny Allen: Take My House, Please 2009

In recent times I've really gotten to like the brisker pace.

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Trade grew still brisker as more canoes came alongside and black men and women thronged the deck.

CHAPTER XI 2010

So it commissioned some of its best wizards to build a machine that, presumably, would work much more accurately and at a somewhat brisker rate than Marissa Mayer turning pages one by one.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

So it commissioned some of its best wizards to build a machine that, presumably, would work much more accurately and at a somewhat brisker rate than Marissa Mayer turning pages one by one.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

Umber started up the causeway again, at a brisker pace.

End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

But analysts and brokers say demand for free-standing retail properties was brisker before the recession when there were numerous smaller retailers who would backfill sites no longer wanted by McDonald's.

A New Suburban Blight Maura Webber Sadovi 2011

Reforms that increase government revenues--on average, program countries increase revenues at a brisker pace than non-program countries--help create "fiscal space."

Benedict Clements: When Reality Doesn't Bite -- Misconceptions about the IMF and Social Spending Benedict Clements 2011

I've only been to the, uh, brisker parts of Canada - you know, the places with the flesh freeze warnings on the order of seconds.

April Scientiae: We Rise Up Candid Engineer 2009