blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : He blusters about revenge but does nothing. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He blustered his way through the crowd. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the bluster of the streets. ,bluff and bluster. From Dictionary.com.
In fact, I’ll say it again … all this blustering is media propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ronnie Flanagan - HMIC Policing Report « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Recall his blustering campaign rhetoric about defeating the Taliban; recall the public commitment last. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Never Considered Diplomacy In Afghanistan] Reference
Now, sir, this kind of blustering and bravado may sound very big up in. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering" line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
The blustering brethren rag'd, and swell'd the main. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Very blustering and their was a man Whipt thirty and nine. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
It is no use blustering and shaking your fist in my face. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The night cometh and the winter storms come blustering on. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
If you hadn't come in blustering, I should have told you so. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
He is a blustering, ruffianly fellow, full of 'strange oaths.'. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Their rough, blustering music, Mark E Smith's elliptical lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend: songs with jokes] Reference
"Just let me tell you one thing, Gracious," she remarked one blustering. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Did Ralph Cheinduit, that blustering, burly knight, cry aloud 'A fig for. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
And Pilate, for all his blustering authority, is a mere puppet in Christ's hands. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong, But Right] Reference
Robert DeNiro plays a blustering politician using the issue in his election campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Action Comedy 'Machete' Explores Illegal Immigration Controversy] Reference
It was one of the very bad days, with blustering hailstorms, and evening was coming on. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Governor Pickens, the bustling and blustering State executive, thus addressed the populace. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference
And entirely unlike the blustering manner Gaddon had displayed on the drive back from Tucson. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
Desmond Barrit as Bottom has the comic girth of Zero Mostel and some of his blustering pathos. From Wordnik.com. [Love On The Run] Reference
Jolly glad I ran across you, but what brings you out on a blustering rotten afternoon like this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Never was blustering demagogue led by a distempered sense of self-importance into a more fatal error. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
It is late, for the woman has been doing extra work; it is stormy, too, blustering and spattering rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
There is a difference between a blustering braggadocio and a quiet, unassuming confidence in one's self. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Part of the reason was that Saddam -- irrational, blustering and thuggish -- was such an unlovable enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Bombs Over Baghdad] Reference
"For two cents I'd smash you in the jaw, so I would!" said Willis, blustering, like the true bully he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
These blustering heroes, however, are the ones who shriek the loudest when fate places them on sinking decks. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
He would stand on the top of Highgate Hill on a blustering night "to watch the goings of the Lord in the storm.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Next day the officer returned to the prison, and endeavored to intimidate him by blustering threats and reproaches. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Angry as the Spaniards were, they could do nothing, for the good fathers minded their blustering and threats not at all. From Wordnik.com. [Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies'] Reference
Three wintry nights in the water the blustering south drove me over the endless sea; scarcely on the fourth dawn I descried. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
I would have told you so if you had played fair and discussed this thing with me instead of leaving the house or blustering. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
He never hesitated to cheat where he had an opportunity, trusting to his powers of blustering and browbeating to sustain him. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The first half of the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade arrived on the 2nd of August at Dakhala, during a blustering dust-storm. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Yesterday, Gawker filled the fiber optic tubes with a blustering post describing the house where Mel Gibson did all his screaming. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Brenoff: Hot Pads: The House That Mel Gibson Did Not Scream in] Reference
Hardly was it swallowed, however, when three canoes came blustering down the stream, filled with negroes and headed by his majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Hate groups pop up all the time, blustering and menacing, but it seems to be the truly lonely desperadoes who act out most violently. From Wordnik.com. [The Loner: Inside The Mind And Motive Of The Capitol Gunman] Reference
In Europe, much of the populace still sees him as a blustering cowboy, a greater danger to world peace than the terrorists themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Less Rain In The Forecast] Reference
Silence reigned on the old Tor, save for the blustering wind, which played havoc with the girls 'hair, and clutched at all their hats. From Wordnik.com. [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference
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