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    1. It is interesting, however, to know that, if classical physics is given its thanks, shook hands with, and given a big fat retirement package; if this is done and the younger, pugnacious quantum physics (or fishics, for there is similarities between the two) steps into its place, then running this experiment twice would not necessarily produce the same results


    2. Churchill however couldn’t thank that to any British feat of arms, but rather on the heroic and unexpectedly pugnacious resistance of the American forces in the Philippines, which sucked in the Japanese reserves in planes and ships like a vacuum cleaner


    3. However, the pugnacious war time leader was not prepared to surrender high office


    4. A fierce activist, Bhushan was a pugnacious lawyer, always itching for a fight


    5. His style is that of the pugnacious streetfighter, full of machismo


    6. At the same time, there was another giant equal in physical stature to the herculean gendarme, both in bulk and height, and with a similar pugnacious personality


    7. Herr Schenk, the head master, was away giving my babies their daily lessons, and his assistant, a youth in spectacles but yet of pugnacious aspect, was sitting in the master's desk, exercising a pretty turn for sarcasm in his running comments on the reading


    8. I remember also a couple of Finns, both carpenters, of course, and very good craftsmen; a Swede, the most scientific sailmaker I ever met; another Swede, a steward, who really might have been called a British seaman since he had sailed out of London for over thirty years, a rather superior person; one Italian, an everlastingly smiling but a pugnacious character; one Frenchman, a most excellent sailor, tireless and indomitable under very difficult circumstances; one Hollander, whose placid manner of looking at the ship going to pieces under our feet I shall never forget, and one young, colourless, muscularly very strong German, of no particular character


    9. For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out


    10. Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest?

    11. For instance when the evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely in people's mind though, it goes without saying, not contributing a copper or pinning his faith absolutely to its dictums, some of which wouldn't exactly hold water, he at the outset in principle at all events was in thorough sympathy with peasant possession as voicing the trend of modern opinion (a partiality, however, which, realising his mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of) and even was twitted with going a step farther than Michael Davitt in the striking views he at one time inculcated as a backtothelander, which was one reason he strongly resented the innuendo put upon him in so barefaced a fashion by our friend at the gathering of the clans in Barney Kiernan's so that he, though often considerably misunderstood and the least pugnacious of mortals, be it repeated, departed from his customary habit to give him (metaphorically) one in the gizzard though, so far as politics themselves were concerned, he was only too conscious of the casualties invariably resulting from propaganda and displays of mutual animosity and the misery and suffering it entailed as a foregone conclusion on fine young fellows, chiefly, destruction of the fittest, in a word


    12. The overall effect was slightly pugnacious


    13. The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; he carried his powerful torso thrown forward; and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows, the pugnacious outline of the bony face, the white spot of a scar on the bluish shaven cheeks (a testimonial to his apostolic zeal from a party of


    14. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered


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    pugnacious rough hard-bitten hard-boiled antagonistic defiant rebellious contentious irascible combative truculent