robustious

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P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman."

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"A railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished."

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After flitting into Britain to plug one of her movies, robustious Jayne Mansfield ran afoul of an unchivalrous lensman, emerged on film as a cow in leopard's clothing.

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Three Oranges is certainly the broadest burlesque ever set on an opera stage, and the richest fun ever made out of grand opera's robustious airs.

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Danger, at first robustious, softens so far as to say that he has no objection to the Lover loving, only he had better keep clear of his roses.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George