And yet, from the jocular demeanour of the islanders and the immediate departure of my abductors, I felt half assured that no truculent design upon my life was meditated after all.
Don't be alarmed at some of his revelations--he's not so truculent as at times he represents himself.
I knew that something must have happened or been discovered to disperse that truculent party of sportsmen so soon and on such good terms with themselves.
Imagine a thin but extremely wiry man, past middle age, brown and bloodless as any crabapple, but as coolly truculent and as casually alert as Raffles at his worst.
As I write these lines, it is not Capital, but overweening Labor which makes its truculent demands on the Administration at Washington, which it has already intimidated.
The derision of the minority was countered by the majority with equal vigor, but the majority did not always feel, in spite of its truculent manner, confident of the outcome.
The idea that he was truculent or pugnacious, that he went about with a chip on his shoulder, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was, however, a mistake.
They were not singing, they were not even talking, there was nothing truculent nor aggressive in their bearing, they had no definite objective they were just marching and showing themselves in the more prosperous parts of London.
If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.
That Crown Prince was the very opposite to his truculent son and that contemptible blackguard, his son's son.
Come, now," he added, changing swiftly into his most truculent mood.
Her frightened eyes were directed to Merrington's truculent ones as though impelled by a magnet.
The housekeeper raised frightened eyes, ringed with black, to histruculent face, but dropped them again without speaking.
While Languedoc and Provence were ravaged by the truculent persecutors, and fires were lighted to burn the bodies of men, women and children, St Francis lived in Assisi, preaching humanity and good will.
One of the most truculent of these spiritual chiefs was Father Michael Murphy of Ballycanoo, a prominent church-militant general in the Wexford campaigns, who met his fate at the battle of Arklow.
Then his voice came with a truculent snap: "You alone?
For a while neither of us said anything after the taciturn habit of our people even on the veld, and indeed I was fully occupied in listening to the truculent talk of a little party of mounted Boers behind us.
Another, and more important, advance is against the truculent Muntefik Arabs of the Euphrates delta.
There seems some reason to believe that with the Restoration, and in opposition to the affected whispering of the Puritans, a truculent and noisy manner became the fashion among Englishwomen.
The eyes blackened into a truculent and venomous scowl.
Smithers turned pale with anger, his fighting face grew as truculent as a bulldog's, while Callomb stood glaring back at him like a second bulldog, but the Judge knew that he was being honestly and fearlessly accused.
But now," she said, in her most truculent manner, "we are going to.
Mr. Debnam shifted uneasily in his chair; the truculent directness of the detective was unpleasing to his tortuous mind.
Suppose," said Denise Ryland, assuming her most truculent air, "you leave off.
Miss Ryland unrolled the Scotch muffler from her throat, swinging her head from side to side in a sort of spuriously truculent manner, quite peculiarly her own.
A foreign lord, with a truculent countenance, bore a naked sword before her, and another knight, with a visage no less stern, carried a jewelled sceptre.
They are a warlike people, but less truculent than the Sea Dayaks, more staid and conservative and religious, and less sociable.
In the course of such long excursions they not infrequently penetrate into the regions inhabited by other tribes, and many troubles have had their origin in the truculent behaviour of such parties.
The hill tribes are truculentwarriors and head-hunters.
Of all these six peoples the Sea Dayaks have become best known to Europeans, largely owing to their restless truculent disposition, and to the fact that they are more numerous in Sarawak than any of the others.
Four bits is the price to you," was the truculent statement, sticking out his chin.
Passing on, we see a big swarthy Afghan, with fine martial features, in which suffering is gradually wearing out the old truculent air.
The men there were sullen, and would give no information, and two or three of the more truculent seemed inclined to hustle the police-officer.
Mr. Brady put back his head and laughed a loud and hearty laugh, by no means elegant, but without much sound of truculent intentions.
