Kept up an obstreperous clamor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
obstreperous boys. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : obstreperous children. From Dictionary.com.
But the truthers quickly became known as obstreperous crazies who disrupted media events, most notably a taping of the HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher," in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The teacher and her "obstreperous" pupils had disappeared from Horsford and had been almost forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference
My father took the only course, as it seemed, that was open to "obstreperous" slaves - he took to the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Finding a way out : an autobiography,] Reference
Stanton and the obstreperous Chase, in their places. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Blast thy obstreperous mirth, thy foolish chatter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Those obstreperous twins now had a little sister two weeks old. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
(Perchance by the 'obstreperous Sir Lawyer' who is mentioned in it?). From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
One obstreperous North-Wester was sent to the Columbia; another to the. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
He replies that an obstreperous 'Sir Lawyer' had induced him to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Soft-spoken and thin as a rake, he isn't exactly the obstreperous type. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Romero] Reference
Mrs. Caukins started up stairs whence came sounds of an obstreperous bootjack. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
When Mrs. Bull is obstreperous, go to the coffee-house and call for your glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829] Reference
Firmly, desperately I press that last obstreperous chocolate down in its place. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
French successes at Verdun, and we all got obstreperous and terrorised poor Fritz. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from France] Reference
His four obstreperous sons (Howard is the eldest) worshiped him -- and feared him. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
You can't suspend a kid from school nowadays just for being unruly or obstreperous. From Wordnik.com. [Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?] Reference
Blasts of obstreperous music rush upon you from every door; the shrill squealing of. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
And soon as it come to me, why, I jest named the obstreperous one Hope and the quiet one. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
This is manifested in many ways, all of them silent, rather than obstreperous and obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Gore may be especially vulnerable in New Hampshire, where obstreperous voters love an upset. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley’S Shot] Reference
Tom can classify the trees of the forest and make the obstreperous beasts and reptiles behave. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
He is not an obstreperous warlord with blood on his hands, plunder on his mind and a ragtag army. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conciliator] Reference
"Amusement! entertainment!" he ejaculated, with another eclat of laughter, still more obstreperous. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
He became obstreperous, when General Polk called a guard and had him marched off to the guard-house. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
The engineer didn't relish the idea of a soldier running his engine and became somewhat obstreperous. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Newt Gingrich returns as speaker, and brings with him most of the famously obstreperous freshman class of 1994. From Wordnik.com. [An Uncivil War] Reference
More obvious and obstreperous proofs, however, of the existence of a boy with a dirty face, could not have been met with. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
Mrs. Halford was a quiet little woman who seldom scolded, but she had a way with her that silenced even obstreperous Katy. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Never before had a British soldier fallen in with them, and, when requested to dismiss, showed signs of being obstreperous. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
He claims that a "little loosening up of the hide" of an obstreperous prisoner does the said prisoner a vast amount of good. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
It did not merit any obstreperous handling, for it kept its audience in a state of unreasoning merriment, and it encased Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Even the obstreperous child is at least temporarily impressed, if he sees that others are, and if he knows the reason for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
Now give the plumage a general going over, re-pin the wings if necessary, and wind down any obstreperous feathers with thread. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
It is a different kind of humor, not so obstreperous, not so exaggerated, but it helps to lighten the whole in much the same way. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Of course, he didn't mean it in a general sense — Fukuda was referring to his difficulty comprehending the obstreperous opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister Vanishes] Reference
The first tones that smote on my ear were those of his hoarse harsh voice (how it jarred upon my nerves!) in loud obstreperous welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
It was not easy for him to make his way along with the obstreperous load, and he soon discovered that the best way to manage the umbrella was to carry it over his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
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