1.   And with that, he bid us a brisk good day, vanishing just as the first Gov. Tryon did more than two centuries ago.

2.   By noon, the skies had cleared, the birds were singing and it felt like a brisk October day.

3.   From his Manhattan office on a brisk December day, NBA commissioner David Stern is watching a horror flick.

4.   Instead of riding escalators, I walked the streets, enjoying the brisk pre-winter days, window shopping at my own pace, free of the buffeting crowds.

5.   On this brisk day, a plane is pulling a glider up above the peak.

6.   One final brisk day is likely in New England, with afternoon clouds inland.

7.   One brisk day last week, a flock of cormorants formed an inverted V overhead, and a pair of mallards surfed on a log in a freshwater pond.

8.   One brisk gray day last spring, five clay-model cars sat on worktables in one of the studios.

9.   Despite the bug, Clinton toured a toxic waste site here without an overcoat on a brisk New Jersey day.

10.   Norwegians claim to love snow and ice, a brisk day on the Nordic ski trail or on ice skates.