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truculent
1. He became surly, truculent and argumentative
2. His truculent attitude rolled off me like water off of a duck’s back
3. The Romans, they feared, would use an uprising, any disturbance of their dictatorial status quo, as they had many times in the past, to upbraid their truculent subjects additionally, in their sullen acquiescence to the rule of this abhorrent “invader
4. I recall him in the south of Spain demanding in a truculent drawl of a young boy who wanted to practice his English, “What’re y’ staples?” When the poor kid didn't understand, Duff growled exactly the same question again and again, only each time louder
5. His perplexed mind automatically thought of a connection between Pop‘s death and this truculent Martin party
6. The darkness blotted the venerable magnolia with its signature ornament but nothing could block the mordant stench of the truculent half-breed and as he silently passed the killing tree; this smell of smells ambushed Sam‘s flared nostrils like ninja
7. Churchill as defiant and truculent as ever, scowled at questions in the house by saying "our affairs are not conducted entirely by simpletons and dunderheads, as the comic papers try to depict"
8. Smith was truculent and Roy Welensky more interested in the cobra that
9. Relaxing against a side wall, he folded his arms and casually surveyed the scene outside, now no more threatening than a truculent kitten
10. The shouter of the strange word--tahimik--stood off to the right: a tall, middle-aged woman with close-cut dark hair and a truculent glower
11. The shouter of the strange word--tahimik--stood off to the left: a tall, middle-aged woman with close-cut dark hair and a truculent glower
12. Later I could observe the same truculent bearing, touched with the racial grotesqueness, in the men of the LANDWEHR
13. " She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service
14. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy
15. (Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp
16. With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house
17. Passing the sleeve of his uniform over his face he pulled himself together, His truculent glance turned slowly here and there, checked the noise where it fell; and the stiff body of the late Senor Hirsch, merchant, after swaying imperceptibly, made a half turn, and came to a rest in the midst of awed murmurs and uneasy shuffling
18. HMS Truculent, the regular Navy transport carrying the rest of the Charisian prisoners, was a bit farther astern of Prodigal Lass than she ought to have been
19. Father Ahndyr Brauhylo, the Schuelerite under-priest assigned to Truculent to oversee the prisoners packed into her hold, was determined to see them delivered to their destination and consigned to the Punishment, but he was disinclined to be any more brutal about it than he had to
20. Commander Urwyn Guhstahvsyn had obeyed his standing orders and immediately brought his ship about and headed southeast, back for the Trosan Channel, but Truculent was a transport galleon
21. It was his duty, and it was at least possible HMS Saint Kylmahn would survive long enough to cover the flight of Truculent and Prodigal Lass
22. Sarmouth had retained HMS Truculent when he dispatched Prodigal Lass back to Gorath with the survivors of Captain Ohkamohto’s crews
23. He’d needed the extra passenger space, although he hadn’t said why he’d kept Truculent instead of Prodigal Lass
24. The prisoners aboard Truculent had been treated with something as close to humanity as any Charisian was likely to find in the hands of the Church of God Awaiting’s defenders
25. queerly assorted pair, the truculent dirty old man with his wooden peg sticking stiffly out So began the relationship that at first startled Atlanta
26. Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes
27. Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant
28. He strolled toward the truck, looking truculent and stern
29. "Instinctively, as it were, a feeling of dislike and rivalry seemed to prevail between ourselves and such of these truculent gentry as it was our fortune to come into contact with