robustious

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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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Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes.

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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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Here we still gamble, and worship the robustious things that come our way, and wait to find a boat.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas