robustious
Example Sentences
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But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished."
From Time Magazine Archive
P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He reminds me of a decrepit but robustious old rooster repossessing himself of a chicken-run after the decapitation of an arrogant and envied rival.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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