robustious

• O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. —  Israpundit
• He might come back to us a robustious, periwig-pated fellow, the delight and wonder of the galleries. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
• The feeling dies hard; but the robustious, business-like guide that herds us together with other comers, and shepherds us all briskly through the official round, goes very far toward killing it. —  A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
• This was a woman most unlike to Angelica: poplar-tall, I grant you; but elm-wide into the bargain; deep-voiced, robustious, and puffed bravely out with hot vital essences. —  A Christmas Garland
• To-day he had seen Sypher in a new mood, sympathetic, unegotistical, non-robustious, and he felt gratified at having won a man's friendship. —  Septimus

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