Champlain relates how a pugnaciousparson was dealt with by a pugnacious clergyman of a different persuasion respecting some knotty controversial points.
Mr. Withee was wont to admit that before he came to Cuba he had a weak back, but the only weakness we were ever able to detect in him was an infirmity of temper which foreboded pugnacious action.
The pugnacious priest, however, soon got into difficulties by his readiness to draw his sword, killed several men, was outlawed, and compelled to leave the island.
King Inge, too, was heartily tired of the aimless hostilities, and even his pugnacious brother, Haakon Galen, was not disinclined to listen to proposals of peace.
No," said Charlemagne, "these ships are not filled with merchandise, but with the most pugnacious foes.
They are the most pugnacious of the woodpeckers, and often are seen chasing one another or driving away some other bird.
They are pugnacious little birds and will drive many of the larger Woodpeckers from their locality.
This plain, pugnacious style of Shaw has greatly clarified all controversies.
Where they are never persecuted they are bold pugnacious birds, coming out of the reeds by day and attacking the domestic poultry about the houses and even in the streets of the villages situated on the borders of their marshy haunts.
It has a rapid flight, and is restless, lively, and extremelypugnacious in its habits.
Nevertheless the males, even of the same species, are apt to be pugnacious in the breeding season.
A race reputed peace-loving, but most pugnacious when roused, was stirred now to its very depths.
As pugnacious as any terrier, Pennefather, with unerring instinct, smelt the coming fight.
At the small lake where they were then encamped, there was the ever-present likelihood of a conflict with the pugnacious natives of the Darling.
These pugnacious aboriginals were the same that had threatened to bring Sturt's boat voyage to a tragical conclusion, and soon after Mitchell's exploration, they waged a determined war against the early overlanders and their stock.
All boys, I suppose, come into the world withpugnacious instincts.
All the other gentlemen took the hint and dropped the pugnacious subject; but Sir Remnant was such a tough old tyrant, that there was no diverting him.
This office has always been confounded, in the provincial mind, with rank in a less pugnacious profession.
Some things for which the obstinate and pugnacious Luther contended, against both Reformers and Catholics, have been condemned by the free judgment of modern times.
I repeat, a most pugnacious people; at least they were in my time.
The Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.
The same pugnacious divine told him one day, that "with all his learning, he did not think him well versed in metaphysics.
The pugnacious clergyman promised not to forget; and in a few minutes Higham came running up, long before the appearance of the expected succour.
Naturally pugnacious in the presence of a rival, the male is all gentleness and kindness when in the society of females, and exerts his best efforts to please and conciliate.
In disparaging patriotism by describing it as the work of an instinct, the gregarious or the pugnacious or other instinct, or of several instincts, its critics are guilty of two psychological errors and a popular fallacy.
And now that I know the allusion which the pugnacious lieutenant apprehended, I cannot but admire the fatality with which, without the smallest design, a very serious misunderstanding was brought about.
Perhaps they were overawed by the antics of the pugnacious atom, and thought he was not quite canny; or perhaps they looked leniently on his conduct as on that of a spoilt child accustomed to be humoured.
Whether the sacred cows of India are spoiled by generations of overindulgence, or whether the variety is constitutionally evil-tempered does not appear, but they one and all take pugnacious exception to the bicycle.
His appreciation of the pugnacious little man of genius, with "a sort of knowing jockey look," to quote Leigh Hunt, dated from his boyhood.
The two officers walked the pugnacious inebriate out, and the clerk followed him to the door, saying: “Confound you!
Two or more adult males were often caught together, and in most of these instances the first one caught probably served as bait attracting another and arousing his pugnacious interest.
He exhibited no interest in the females and was less pugnacious toward other males than were the individuals in breeding condition.
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