robustious

Example Sentences

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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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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.

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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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Variety Artists Club Brooklyn New York He was a long, rangy animal, robustious, romantical; with a taste in the question of personal decoration that created compelling effects.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph