Such niggling super refinement would be quite repugnant to Borrow's highway robustious temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
Beautiful silence; and so soon as this robustious rain takes off, I am to drink of it again by oceanfuls. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
No doubt it was a drain on vitality to live abreast of such a man, to keep step with his robustious stride. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
In each boat embarked a whole family, from the robustious burgher down to the cats and dogs and little negroes. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
In November a new President of the USA will be elected after a robustious campaign by perhaps 140 million Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Blair? How Many Divisions Has He Got?] Reference
Actors at that time were often robustious, periwig-pated fellows who sawed the air with their hands and tore a passion to tatters. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
In a moment I felt that my cheeks were red enough to satisfy Daddy himself, who is always a strenuous advocate of robustious femininity. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Twiller as "a robustious beer-barrel, standing on skids.". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference
He looked leaner and frailer and less robustious than of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
The robustious voice of Captain Le Mesurier sounded from the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Philanderers] Reference
No sooner did this robustious commander hear of the erection of Fort. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
Titus, like a "robustious periwig-pated" alderman after a civic feast. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
Had not the Deacon ranked him in the robustious great company of Burns!. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
I have not been so robustious as formerly, ever since the last summer, when. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
The eyes of the robustious fellow began to blink, and he returned to his colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
The mother was a robustious woman with a termagant temper; she was what you call "practical.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference
And a robustious fellow with great voice, and lace and sword, strutting forward near the lights. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
Here we still gamble, and worship the robustious things that come our way, and wait to find a boat. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
He might come back to us a robustious, periwig-pated fellow, the delight and wonder of the galleries. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fireside. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fire-side. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
Opening his eyes, he realised that somebody was knocking at his door, and shouting in a robustious bass. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
And the robustious fellow who sits at the head of the table when the Jolly Swillers meet at the Blue Lion on. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
The fisherman had treated the driver and the farmer at the Hibernian, and was being rewarded with robustious chaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
At last the Clerk came in person, and threw Auntie Nan into tremors of nervousness by his noise and robustious-ness. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
A robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
They wandered about some more, listened for a short time to the trillings of a robustious prima donna come upon evil days. From Wordnik.com. [Stubble] Reference
In the round, rosy countenance and robustious person of the last of the trio he discovered his ancient ally, Titus Tyrconnel. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
The old hall in which we dined echoed to bursts of robustious fox-hunting merriment, that made the ancient antlers shake on the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
Istrine, and the Princess of Bithynia, Spithridates's sister and daughter of a very robustious and rather usurping King Arsamones, who is. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Basan, that the said Og, being yet little, was so strong and robustious, that they were fain to bind him with chains of iron in his cradle. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference
To draw your steps, it is the showman's privilege to make what blare he please upon the sidewalk; to puff his cheeks with robustious announcement. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
In the West they take Burns for their exemplar, and affect the jovial and robustious -- in some cases it is affectation only, and a mighty poor one at that. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
The situation with so robustious a person as this prince may seem awkward, and indeed, as is observed in a later part of the book, the heroine's repeated sojourns. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
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