robustiously

One man, a confidant of the old expressive days, attacked him robustiously and demanded account of his soul's progress.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

"You are pleased to be quite plain at last," said I. "And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!" cries he robustiously.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Next, Cowley "came in robustiously and put for it with a deal of violence" in his sacred poem entitled _Davideis_.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

"You are pleased to be quite plain at last," said I. "And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!" cries he robustiously.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"You are pleased to be quite plain at last," said I. "And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!" cries he robustiously.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The result was a democratic and thoroughly Protestant Church, which drew into itself the highest energies, political as well as religious, of a strong and great-hearted people, and by which Laud and his confederates, when they had apparently overcome resistance in England, were as Milton says, "more robustiously handled."

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

Indeed, the multitude commend writers as they do fencers or wrestlers, who if they come in robustiously and put for it with a deal of violence are received for the braver fellows; when many times their own rudeness is a cause of their disgrace, and a slight touch of their adversary gives all that boisterous force the foil.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605