robustious

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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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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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Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.

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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 robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas