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

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His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.

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He buys a tinker's beat and fit-out from a feeble vessel of the craft, who has been expelled by "the Flaming Tinman," a half-gipsy of robustious behaviour.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George