"Truculently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me so truculently that I was moved to righteous wrath; and I answered him back. I told him what I thought of him and his clothes and his conduct at quite some length. When I had finished he seemed to have gained a new attitude of aggravating ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... In two other letters Theodoric is obliged seriously to chide the Roman Senate for its irascible temper in dealing with one of the factions of the Circus. A Patrician and a Consul, so it was alleged, had truculently assaulted the Green party, and one man had lost his life in the fray. The king ordered that the matter should be enquired into by two officials of "Illustrious" rank, who had special jurisdiction in cases wherein nobles of high position were concerned. ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... K. C. Kid piped up, truculently: "Say, where do you get this moral stuff? This ain't a Sunday-school picnic; it's ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... toward Sid's Steak Joint, with Mike the midget marching truculently between them. Men nodded to them as they passed. Joe marshaled in his mind what he was going to tell the Chief. He had a trick for fixing the pilot gyros. A speck of rust would spoil them, and they had been through a plane crash and a fire and explosions, ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... at him his enormous and inflamed countenance truculently. "Don't you go for trying this silly game again, ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... Mike said truculently, "We won't be knocked off! We've got rockets of our own up here now! We can fight back if ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... should she do that?" demanded Eliza truculently. "Roger's as bonnie and brave a mate as any woman need look for, and Trenby Hall's a fine home to ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... all over the office and begging for mercy," he protested, truculently. But a note of fear lay under ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... you're right. This railroad has brought some mighty slick ones here. Mighty slick an' gally." He looked at her truculently. "Corrigan's one of the slick ones. Friend ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... of broken boats. And though Bering, like the English navigator Drake, was convinced that no Gamaland existed, he was confronted by the learned geographers, who had a Gamaland on their maps and demanded truculently, whence came the signs ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut
... of the distant town. Then, truculently, to the Virginian, "I told you I was going ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... Well, what of me?" the stout man cried truculently. His brows descended over his ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... RUFIO (truculently). Are your men Romans? If not, it matters not how many there are, provided you are no stronger than 500 ...
— Caesar and Cleopatra • George Bernard Shaw
... which is what you would say," Fortunio answered truculently, his head well back, his brown eyes resentful of offence—for none can be so resentful of imputed villainy as your villain who is thorough-paced. "And," he concluded, "I return you the same answer, madame—that ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... chance of being potted any minute. Good luck, young feller.... Good luck." Fuselli remembered unpleasantly his paper-white face and the greenish look of his bald head; but the words had made him stride out of the office sticking out his chest, brushing truculently past a group of men in the door. Even now the memory of it, mixing with the strains of the national anthem made him ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... not call ME that," returned Penrod truculently. "I'd like to hear anybody try. Just once, that's all! I bet they'd never ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... nationalist passion of Claudel animates his Catholic religion, yet does not break through its confines. But sometimes the strain of suffering and ruin is too intense for Christian submission, and he takes his God to task truculently for not doing his part in the contract; we are his partner in running the world, and ...
— Recent Developments in European Thought • Various
... the two parties waving Prather's handkerchief. Leddy rose on his knee watchfully, rifle in hand, while he spoke with Nogales. Then Nogales started back with his head thrown up jubilantly, but stopped when he was within calling distance and sang out, truculently: ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... elder does not permit man truculently to exalt himself by contrast with discourteous woman. He expressly disclaims the declaration of the implication that man is mannerly, while woman is not. In many men he remarks indifference to rudimentary courtesies, and in many women a gentle regard for others which deserves even ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis |
