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The river-driver loved excitement for its own sake, and behind his boisterousness there was little evil.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
These, too, were talking over the situation, but with a breezy boisterousness which was absent in their elders.
ALETTABERTRAM MITFORD
During the rest of the day he was very quiet and sat gazing before him His boisterousness had vanished.
THE BLUE GERMMARTIN SWAYNE
Paula seemed seized with a spirit of boisterousness quite unlike her usual behaviour.
A LAODICEANTHOMAS HARDY
It is good humor and boisterousness and the jollity of the Fair time.
THE SOUL OF JOHN BROWNSTEPHEN GRAHAM
The boisterousness was gone; there was almost a new timidity about her.
JIMMY QUIXOTETOM GALLON
He stood grim and silent, watching the preparations and noting the exultation which often reached boisterousness.
NED IN THE BLOCK-HOUSEEDWARD S. ELLIS
Her manners have lost the boisterousness of school days, but still often want toning down according to English ideas.
TOWN LIFE IN AUSTRALIAR. E. N. (RICHARD) TWOPENY
He informed the visitor that Captain Colburne was out, but insisted with an amicable boisterousness upon his entering.
MISS RAVENEL'S CONVERSION FROM SECESSION TO LOYALTYJ. W. DE FOREST
Our boisterousness in art is too self-conscious to be real, and our restraint is only a superficial legacy from Puritanism.
ANOTHER SHEAFJOHN GALSWORTHY

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