In the round, rosy countenance androbustious person of the last of the trio he discovered his ancient ally, Titus Tyrconnel.
It is the old jealousy of a clever and unscrupulous self-made man towards an improvident seigneur and his somewhat robustious son.
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.
He looked leaner and frailer and less robustious than of old.
Had not the Deacon ranked him in the robustious great company of Burns!
A robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade.
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 fisherman had treated the driver and the farmer at the Hibernian, and was being rewarded with robustious chaff.
The eyes of the robustiousfellow began to blink, and he returned to his colleagues.
Robustious perrywig-pated fellow] This is a ridicule on the quantity of false hair worn in Shakespeare's time, for wigs were not in common use till the reign of Charles the Second.
His gunner was a robustious Vulcan, and the gun or petard itself was a huge overgrown smith's hammer.
Therefore, we may call him the Robustious Philistine.
Shall we say, then, that the Robustious Philistine is the worse citizen, while the Biblioklept is the worse man?
As to the mean, we have seen that it is the virtue of the true book-lover, while the defect constitutes the sin of the Robustious Philistine.
Again, the question may be raised, whether is the Robustious Philistine who despises books, or the biblioklept who adores them out of measure and excessively, the worse citizen?
No sooner did this robustiouscommander hear of the erection of Fort Casimir, than he sent a message to Van Poffenburgh, warning him off the land, as being within the bounds of his jurisdiction.
In each boat embarked a whole family, from the robustious burgher down to the cats and dogs and little negroes.
The old hall in which we dined echoed to bursts of robustious fox-hunting merriment, that made the ancient antlers shake on the walls.
I pulled up; and as the animal was restive and my servant a bungler, I called for assistance to the robustious master of a snug ale-house, who stood at his door with a tankard in his hand.
