He neither gave way gracefully to the advancing spirit of liberty nor took vigorous measures to stop it, but retreated before it with ludicrous haste, blustering and insulting as he retreated.
Differing in constitution and in situation, whether blustering or cringing, whether persecuting Protestant or Catholics, they were equally unprincipled and inhuman.
Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
I will not go on like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, That make such a bustle and noise in vain, But I'll be as busy as they!
Then away to the fields it went blustering and humming, And the cattle all wondered whatever was coming.
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blustering wind, or swallowing wave.
Upon your stubborn usage of the pope; But since you are a gentle convertite, My tongue shall hush again this storm of war 20 And make fair weather in your blustering land.
Ye blustering brethren of the skies, Whose breath has ruffled all the watery plain, Retire, and let Britannia rise, In triumph o'er the main.
His correspondence, nevertheless, breathes a certain thick-headed, blustering arrogance, worthy of the successor of Braddock.
There was a party of four; a noisy, blustering man with a lady, a little boy and a young girl, and a great deal of luggage.
And they soon were gone, for when they understood Jerry's dodge they got out, calling him all sorts of bad names and blustering about his number and getting a summons.
On the occasion in question Aloha had just cleared the passage and sheets were being slacked away for the run before the blustering Northeast Trade down to Maui.
While he spoke he scrutinized his wife, judging the effect of his blustering independence.
Then came the slamming of a door, and silence save for the blustering of the wind.
The silence seemed like the deep hush that falls between the blustering stanzas of a storm.
Let us attach them to the veranda by a wisp of straw rope, such as would not have held a person's hat on that blustering day.
A bearded, mildewed little man, whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place, his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering.
And as the old gentleman uttered these words in a tone still stronger than before, a feeble wail seemed to pass through the air and die away in the blustering of the storm, which was just beginning to rage.
Miss Archer bowed him out, feeling sorry rather than displeased with the big, blustering man whom fatherly love had blinded to his daughter's faults.
His blustering manner had not intimidated this regal, calm-featured woman.
The play was made, and I won, which greatly amused my friend, who was anxious for my success, as the fellow had given me the dare in a blustering sort of way.
There is undoubtedly something offensive in this blustering self-assertion.
Swift takes the opportunity of caricaturing the special object of his aversion, the blustering and illiterate soldier, though he indignantly denies that he had said anything disagreeable to his hospitable entertainer.
There I lived in peace and tranquility for the space of six weeks, when I was alarmed by one of my lord's myrmidons, who came into the neighbourhood, blustering and swearing that he would carry me off either dead or alive.
To 'scape theblustering breath of March, Or was it for your mind's disguise?
Household Words It was a cold stormy blustering day.
Her quick blustering way always amused and aroused him, and he yielded more easily to her than to the others, but her hand was somewhat nervous to-day as she administered the nourishing liquid.
