The emperor made the hearing short; dismissed Felix dismayed and from his truculence Completely broken--to his servile state Remanded, as in spirit so in mien.
The freedman's truculence waxed with every word, And swaggering forward he his hand upraised As if himself to strike the blow he bade; When, with a maniple of soldiers armed Accompanied, Julius the centurion stood Abruptly at the door.
The Deputy-Governor went out with dragging feet, followed by guards, his momentary truculence utterly spent.
His lordship conceived that the fellow's truculence and utter lack of proper deference must be corrected.
Thus challenged, the obvious truculence faded out of Ogle's bearing, quenched by the old habit of obedience and the natural dominance that was the secret of the Captain's rule over his wild followers.
Perhaps his visit to the Post Office for letters had something to do both with his truculence and his present air of fascinated interest in Evanthia's face.
He seemed, Mr. Spokesly imagined, to be assuming truculence to cover timidity.
The whole movement was made in silence, without a cheer or yell, for, like the porter and the Scythians, the most unconscionable villains in our ergastulum quailed before the truculence of the frontier sergeants.
From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.
Why it should have shown such truculence and heedlessness I cannot imagine, unless perhaps it was a female, with eggs near by.
Where much persecuted the survivors gradually grow more willing to run, but their instinct is not to run but to trust to their truculence and their mass-action for safety.
I've got to go back to Hampton," repeated Ditmar, with a suggestion of truculence that took his friend aback.
Mr. Jackson turned on this man with such truculence that he edged away to the rear of the room.
She still viewed me in truculence and disgust, but there was a subtle change in her demeanor.
A look of mingled craft and truculence spread over the seamed, sallow face of the woman.
Before it, the assumption of truculence on Spofford's features faded.
It was odd to see Truculence rise and help the little ones in; and odder still to see the children smile up into that formidable face, when they took their seats.
Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculenceof restraint.
At last, at the beginning of 1917, the German truculencebecame too great even for President Wilson to palliate.
The true Prussian truculence always oozes out when it has not a safe margin of superiority in strength on its side.
It came in the middle watch, a gentle air, that lifted the canvas and set the reef points drumming and dancing at each welcome flutter, and all our truculence and ill-temper vanished with the foam bubbles that rose under our moving fore-foot.
With good-natured truculence the collier turned on him also.
Abrams in the preface to his book, New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, “nor the truculence of pen can discredit the author’s observations which are capable of analyzation and demonstration.
Abrams: “Despite the fury of tongue or the truculence of the pen, the osteopath and chiropractor are inspiring the confidence of the community with their systems.
Any soft young fool, she asserted, with the directness and not unattractive truculence of her generation, can get a commission and muddle through, but it took a man to enlist as a private soldier.
The principle of maintaining them was adopted at many temples, but nowhere did they exhibit such truculence as in the case of Enryaku-ji near Kyoto.
The Achakzai tribespeople (some of whom were with the khafila returning to their country from Bombay) behaved with remarkable modesty and good faith, and altogether belied their natural characteristics of truculence and treachery.
The frown still narrowed Harlan's eyes when they rested upon the horseman; and his brows were drawn together with unmistakable truculence when Haydon dismounted near the corral fence.
They saw no German faces on the streets, and the Irish faces had not that truculence which they wear sometimes with us.
They were occupied with securing their liberties from the tyranny of Henry the Eighth and their lives from the truculence of Mary.
In studying this calculated truculence we have to remember that in Germany foreign and domestic policy are inextricably interwoven.
