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Just as Napoleon turned back from the English Channel to Ulm and Austerlitz because he feared treachery at his rear, Adolf Hitler was perhaps just consolidating the ructious minor countries of the southeast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps the greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was her feeling of rebellion but the kicking of ructious heels against the closed door of fate?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

That there Texian, onct he got a-goin', was some ructious!

From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

Ef anybody likes to be fussy an' ructious 'n little things, why, there's nuthin' to hender him from hevin' his own way.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various