robustious

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

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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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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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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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The lion-tamer, who enters unscathed the den of his charge, must share the robustious courage and determination of the beast with which he associates.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various