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1. During the day the young man went off to commit his musical crimes in shopping malls and bus stations, only to find that he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers and flustered financial advisers because Cyberia had scorched their whites
2. he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers
3. IF I were able to maintain that new found wakefulness and peace until she was satisfied I wouldn't relapse into the blustering baboon of bravado I knew had always been
4. Treetops, still sporting as yet unbroken red buds, waved and swayed in the blustering winds
5. He said, in his most blustering manner, “See here, my good man, my wife and I and our children are touring Poland at the behest of the new government
6. "When anger comes on you or harshness know that he is in you; and you will know this to be the case also when you are attacked by a longing after many transactions and the richest delicacies and drunken revels and divers luxuries and things improper and by a hankering after women and by overreaching and pride and blustering and by whatever is like to these
7. His face had lost all of its coloring and he was now fidgeting in his chair---his blustering was over
8. I idly inspected my manicure and waited for his blustering to subside
9. breeze blustering in all directions as if summer was still young, the sun fresh and warm
10. "Traitor may be debatable but he did teach me that the Cavalli's talk of brotherhood and family is nothing but a lot of blustering wind
11. But here one could not dream; here was life, vigorous, stinging, blustering life; and standing on the top of the dune holding my hat on with both hands, banged and battered by the salt wind, my clothes flapping and straining like a flag in a gale on a swaying flagstaff, the weight of a generation was blown off my shoulders, and I was seized by a craving as unsuitable as it was terrific to run and fetch a spade and a bucket, and dig and dig till it was too dark to dig any longer, and then go indoors tired and joyful and have periwinkles or shrimps for tea
12. Two Rivers could not help but be amused by this youngsters blustering
13. Talk wasn't possible because of the narrow path and the blustering wind, but every now and then Wemyss looked down over his shoulder at her
14. happiness and satisfaction! I do not mean that one should assume a blustering and
15. Hyenas: close social networking… re-establishing social contacts daily, female hierarchy of the clan-group… There you have a perfect explanation of all the ‘macho cultures with big armies and blustering males in public… going home to be henpecked by their wives and mothers
16. Yet the blustering asses in France and England still insisted on declaring war on Germany
17. He behaved as a blustering gangster who would be a British Mussolini given the chance; which was exactly what he was setting out to do and was exactly what happened
18. He pressed the red button above the doors, ignoring its blustering threats of dire consequences for wrongful use
19. One of the muleteers in attendance, who could not have had much good nature in him, hearing the poor prostrate man blustering in this style, was unable to refrain from giving him an answer on his ribs; and coming up to him he seized his lance, and having broken it in pieces, with one of them he began so to belabour our Don Quixote that, notwithstanding and in spite of his armour, he milled him like a measure of wheat
20. But he was not the kind of blustering bully whom she could have overpowered with ease
21. She was expecting another blustering denial
22. A good deal of his blustering spirit seemed to have evaporated with the removal of his fine panoply
23. Boyd bolted off the bed, angry, blustering, chest out, hands curled into fists
24. ’ He was blustering now, his face drained of colour
25. Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on O’Hara had been played
26. She remembered how, as a child, he had seemed the most wonderful man in the world, this blustering father who carried her
27. Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistencewhich, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock
28. Outside Kathleen’s window, the air shifted in the aftermath of the previous night’s blustering storm
29. With the wind blustering all around him, he slit open the plastic where it met the house
30. “When I heard of you and your blustering up and down the ocean, I thought of you, somehow, as the one realist on an earth of vacillation
31. There are squinched-up mean walks and blustering walks, shy creeping walks, but this was a gay walk, as though the walker were going happily to a meeting with someone she loved
32. As I walked over the long causeway made for the railroad through the meadows, I encountered many a blustering and nipping wind, for nowhere has it freer play; and when the frost had smitten me on one cheek, heathen as I was, I turned to it the other also
33. “You think I am afraid of you?” he sneered, bluffing and blustering like the school bully