I was curtly told that our table would be held for no more than five minutes.

Marcia tried to make him eat dinner, but Buell curtly told her he was too busy.

Water their horses," he curtly told one of his men, "and then we'll escort them back.

Rodney asks Sandra to go out on another date, but she curtly tells him not to push his luck.

When she chided him about it, he curtly told her that he was quite recovered and not a child.

He told curtly just what had happened.

Then she curtly told Col n that she would take his requests under counsel, and dismissed him.

He curtly told her to say three Hail Marys.

He was curtly told, he said, that he "didn't have the family background to be a royal architect."

And when I had called to make the 6 p.m. reservation, I was curtly told that we would have to leave our table by 8:30.