| 单词 | robustious |
| 例句 | The picture of the robustious Colonel uneasy in Zion is one of them. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z To the robustious intelligence of the honor man, it must be admitted, the finer enthusiasm of scientific culture is likely to be a sealed book. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The young man gave chase, aided by the guard at the gate, and eventually they succeeded in capturing Blood after a "robustious struggle" during which some pearls and diamonds were knocked out of the crown. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z The lion-tamer, who enters unscathed the den of his charge, must share the robustious courage and determination of the beast with which he associates. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Variety Artists Club Brooklyn New York He was a long, rangy animal, robustious, romantical; with a taste in the question of personal decoration that created compelling effects. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z To me she looks kindly and not a bit unintelligent, a rather fine specimen of the robustious modern young woman. A Top-Floor Idyl ‘O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion into tatters.’ English Costume 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. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The silent pirates of the shore Eat and sleep soft, and pocket more Than any red, robustious ranger Who picks his farthings hot from danger. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers “You are pleased to be quite plain at last,” said I. 265 “And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!” cries he robustiously. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) Join in, give voice robustious rude and rough,— Avison helps—so heart lend noise enough! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Welcoming each new child with feasting and psalmody, never for a moment had Nehemiah lost his robustious faith in life, his belief in God, man, or himself. Ghetto Comedies Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It is the old jealousy of a clever and unscrupulous self-made man towards an improvident seigneur and his somewhat robustious son. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century All this strikes one as healthy, even when expressed, as by Clifford, with somewhat too much of robustious pathos in the voice. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He looked leaner and frailer and less robustious than of old. The Prairie Mother And a robustious fellow with great voice, and lace and sword, strutting forward near the lights. Chimney-Pot Papers A robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade. The House with the Green Shutters The eyes of the robustious fellow began to blink, and he returned to his colleagues. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 They wandered about some more, listened for a short time to the trillings of a robustious prima donna come upon evil days. Stubble He reminds me of a decrepit but robustious old rooster repossessing himself of a chicken-run after the decapitation of an arrogant and envied rival. The Prairie Mother Here we still gamble, and worship the robustious things that come our way, and wait to find a boat. Nights in London Had not the Deacon ranked him in the robustious great company of Burns! The House with the Green Shutters The fisherman had treated the driver and the farmer at the Hibernian, and was being rewarded with robustious chaff. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Inflated with the importance of his office, inflamed with heat, sat Titus, like a "robustious periwig-pated" alderman after a civic feast. Rookwood The "rough, raging, roaring, roystering, robustious rascal" side of him, and the description is not mine but taken from an extant document, had long been filling up. The Black Colonel He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fireside. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) In the West they take Burns for their exemplar, and affect the jovial and robustious—in some cases it is affectation only, and a mighty poor one at that. The House with the Green Shutters The good fellow was a noisy, hearty, robustious creature, a bachelor, and when talking of the late Deemster, he said women were usually the chief obstacles in a man's career. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 In the round, rosy countenance and robustious person of the last of the trio he discovered his ancient ally, Titus Tyrconnel. Rookwood No doubt it was a drain on vitality to live abreast of such a man, to keep step with his robustious stride. On the Stairs Danger, at first robustious, softens so far as to say that he has no objection to the Lover loving, only he had better keep clear of his roses. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Like many another robustious big toper, the Templar was a chicken at heart, and "to be in with Gourlay" lent him a consequence that covered his deficiency. The House with the Green Shutters To draw your steps, it is the showman’s privilege to make what blare he please upon the sidewalk; to puff his cheeks with robustious announcement. Journeys to Bagdad This gunner was a robustious Vulcan, and his engine a mighty smith's hammer. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide But I see, ma'am, that you have got quite a robustious prejudice against Cayenne. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's He was somewhat taken aback by their appearance and air, for his steward had somehow given him the impression that they were thick, red-faced and robustious. The Terrible Twins In robustious assertion you will not find anything to equal it in the Hospital Rhymes of that author. Masques & Phases Now Lynch swore robustious oaths in a hearty voice. The Blood Ship He might come back to us a robustious, periwig-pated fellow, the delight and wonder of the galleries. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made I have not been so robustious as formerly, ever since the last summer, when I fell ill after a long swim in the Mediterranean, and have never been quite right up to this present writing. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals The feeling dies hard; but the robustious, business-like guide that herds us together with other comers, and shepherds us all briskly through the official round, goes very far toward killing it. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees We talked for a while on different things, the child's robustious health, the garden, the weather, our summer holiday, much in the same dismal fashion as assembled mourners talk before the coffin is brought downstairs. Jaffery A robustious voice and manner are the very first essentials of Parliamentary success; and no man who is not gifted with these things has really much right to try Parliamentary life. Sketches in the House (1893) The door of the distant apartment must have been again thrown open, for a robustious fellow could be heard to sing a stave of a drinking song. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance "You are pleased to be quite plain at last," said I. "And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!" cries he robustiously. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona The mother was a robustious woman with a termagant temper; she was what you call "practical." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Actors at that time were often robustious, periwig-pated fellows who sawed the air with their hands and tore a passion to tatters. The Theory of the Theatre The old hall in which we dined echoed to bursts of robustious fox-hunting merriment, that made the ancient antlers shake on the walls. Tales of a Traveller In a moment I felt that my cheeks were red enough to satisfy Daddy himself, who is always a strenuous advocate of robustious femininity. Sweetapple Cove One man, a confidant of the old expressive days, attacked him robustiously and demanded account of his soul's progress. A Diversity of Creatures The robustious voice of Captain Le Mesurier sounded from the hall. The Philanderers Besides, the shaking of hands before the fight, the squaring-up for war, and the reconciliation, can only be given the right robustious ring and defiance by the fighting sex. The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England There is a little too much in all this of the robustious Herakles sending his great voice before him. Robert Browning Time was when Hamlet was little more than an opportunity for some robustious periwig-pated fellow, or it gave the semi-learned actor the chance to conceal his imaginative incapacity by a display of "new readings." Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Being of a delicate make--nature never intended me for the naval or military line, or for any robustious profession--I was apprenticed to the tailoring trade. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fire-side. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes It is said that it is ludicrous to compare the mild humor of Rip Van Winkle with the "robustious fun of Swift". Literary and Social Essays His personality made a striking contrast with the robustious semi-civilisation of the colonists with whom Irene became acquainted; she appreciated all the more his many refinements. The Crown of Life When Mr. Roosevelt was in the White House the Typical American was gay, robustious, full of the joy of living, an expansive spirit from the frontier, a picaresque twentieth century middle class Cavalier. The Mirrors of Washington He's a little robustious then, but take him all in all for a master, you may go further and fare worse. Sybil, or the Two Nations The man who tears the passion to tatters is the robustious periwig-pated fellow; the actor, who shows us the man torn in tatters by the passion, is the supreme artist. Phyllis of Philistia More ballad-concerts, more quaint English, more robustious barytone songs, more piecemeal pictures, more colonial poetry, more young nations with withered traditions. Essays More ballad-concerts, more quaint English, more robustious barytone songs, more piecemeal pictures, more anxious decoration, more colonial poetry, more young nations with withered traditions. The Rhythm of Life He paused involuntarily, and a slight shiver shook his frame from head to foot—the dainty, instinctive repulsion of a cat for a large robustious dog. The Riverman |
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