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robustious

[roh-buhs-chuhs] / roʊˈbʌs tʃəs /


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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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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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Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The picture of the robustious Colonel uneasy in Zion is one of them.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert


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