As brisk as a body-louse. [ Proverb ]

He's as brisk as bottled ale. [ Proverb ]

As brisk as a bee in a tar-pot. [ Proverb ]

To brisk notes in cadence beating
Glance their many-twinkling feet. [ Gray ]

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. [ Swift ]

So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet.
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet. [ Churchill ]

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. [ Glanville ]

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down to the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the common sense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. [ Edwin Percy Whipple ]