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The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.

Hard Times 2002

Then I heard Sir Richard say, in his loud blustrous tones:

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

Doan't ye mind, sir, that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop, when you were making a new chair for the chancel? '

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

Observing this, the blustrous Bounderby had the following remarks to make:

Hard Times 1876

The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.

Hard Times 1876

She had loved that blustrous good-tempered Tom Halliday so very dearly, and it was only to please poor Georgy that she brought herself to address any other man by the name that had been his.

Birds of Prey 1875

In the meantime the blustrous March weather, which was so unsuited to long railroad journeys, and all that waiting about at junctions and at little windy stations on branch lines, incidental to the inspection of estates scattered over a large area of country, served very well for

Birds of Prey 1875

Georgy Sheldon and his set had taken possession of the young farmer; and Georgy had no better amusement in the long blustrous March evenings than to sit at her work under the flaming gas in Mr. Sheldon's drawing-room, while that gentleman -- who rarely joined in the dissipations of his friend and his brother -- occupied himself with mechanical dentistry in the chamber of torture below.

Birds of Prey 1875

It was an evening in March -- cold, blustrous, dreary.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

The blustrous winds of an unusually bitter March had buffeted Mr. Sheldon in the streets of his native town, and had almost blown him off the door-steps of his kindred.

Birds of Prey 1875