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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After flitting into Britain to plug one of her movies, robustious Jayne Mansfield ran afoul of an unchivalrous lensman, emerged on film as a cow in leopard's clothing.

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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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It has been always available as a canon to which to refer unnatural ranters, and to prevent the robustious school from tearing a passion to tatters.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various