robustious

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

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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.

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His upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture.

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Danger, at first robustious, softens so far as to say that he has no objection to the Lover loving, only he had better keep clear of his roses.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George