Dropping down on the sofa with his head laid low and his feet thrown up in a favourite attitude on the back, which must, I imagine, have been at least as easy as it was elegant, he began the conversation by bantering me upon what he called my "robustious" appearance compared with what he had been led to expect from gloomy reports of uncertain health. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. ❋ George Heymont (2011)
In November a new President of the USA will be elected after a robustious campaign by perhaps 140 million Americans. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Beautiful silence; and so soon as this robustious rain takes off, I am to drink of it again by oceanfuls. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fire-side. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Before the rains came thundering on the iron roof of our little hut, the washed-out and enfeebled town dweller who gave way to bitter reflections on the first evening of his new career, could hardly have been recognised, thanks to the robustious, wholesome effects of the free and vitalising life. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And therefore you may believe that which Nicholas de Lyra saith upon that place of the Psalter where it is written, Et Og Regem Basan, that the said Og, being yet little, was so strong and robustious, that they were fain to bind him with chains of iron in his cradle. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise! ❋ Anna Kelsey Howard (N/A)
O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing ❋ Michael Phelan (N/A)
No doubt it was a drain on vitality to live abreast of such a man, to keep step with his robustious stride. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
How often I think of him, when I see at Washington robustious men going through a scene of supplication, tribulation, and degradation, to obtain office, which the salvation of the soul does not impose upon the vilest sinner! ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb - shows and noise. ❋ Irvah Lester Winter (N/A)
His gunner was a robustious Vulcan, and the gun or petard itself was a huge overgrown smith's hammer. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 10 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such ❋ A.E. Marty (N/A)
Such niggling super refinement would be quite repugnant to Borrow's highway robustious temperament. ❋ James Hooper (N/A)
Actors at that time were often robustious, periwig-pated fellows who sawed the air with their hands and tore a passion to tatters. ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)
When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted: "Hey! Frank!" in such a robustious voice that the feeble [clamor] of the natives was drowned and [silenced].
-- O. Henry, [Cabbages] and Kings ❋ JRob (2006)
Ted-"Hey Bill, look at that [fat chick] over there."
Bill-"She isn't fat, she is [robusty]. Look at her [tits]!!!" ❋ AdvancedGentleman (2009)
