robustious

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

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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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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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It is the old jealousy of a clever and unscrupulous self-made man towards an improvident seigneur and his somewhat robustious son.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George