truculent
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All this time, the Admiralty did not know that the Truculent had been lost.
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Truculent party leaders gazed at his shining pink head, heard him alternately threaten and cajole in his rasping Prussian voice.
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Before the lights went out Civilian Stevens had a chance to check the depth gauge: the Truculent rested on the bottom, 42 feet below the surface.
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But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a Truculent Nero, a Devil of a Man, was turned in upon the World, it was said, in 1 Pet.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
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