His backside happened to be to the donkey-rather too close to the donkey for the donkey's liking-and at that exact, fastuous instant, the ungrateful creature lashed out with its hind legs, one of its hooves kicking thin air but the other dealing Switters's right stilt a blow that sent him flying. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
Northallerton or old, married schoolfellows from other northern or midland towns coming to partake of her fastuous hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
The King of Saxony had paid a visit to Brussels in the late autumn of 1914 and had invited this Colonel of his Army to a fastuous banquet given at the Palace Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
Barrow uses both 'fastuous' and 'fastuously.'. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II] Reference
Pil'd up some fastuous trophy, that of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
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