robustious
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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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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.
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His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.
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After serving as host at a heaping Thanksgiving dinner for elderly folks, Boston's unpompous Archbishop Richard J. Cushing shifted into high, merrily danced an Irish jig with two robustious ewes of his diocesan flock.
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The silent pirates of the shore Eat and sleep soft, and pocket more Than any red, robustious ranger Who picks his farthings hot from danger.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
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