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  • John had returned from London blusterously cheerful, and Twemlow stood in the centre of his vehement noisy hospitality as in the centre of a typhoon.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

  • It was a keen morning; the tramontana blew blusterously, causing the smoke of Vesuvius to lie all down its long slope, a dense white cloud, or a vast turbid torrent, breaking at the foot into foam and spray.

    The Emancipated George Gissing 1880

  • "The counter; _my_ counter!" shouted Will blusterously.

    Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

  • Bill Orallydidn't take too kindly to that, and he railed against Newsweek's editor, Jon Meacham, bloviating blusterously that "NEWSWEEK has really gone off the rails with its far-left posture.

    O'Reilly: "A Big Steaming Lump of Male Vanity" 2008

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