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School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. (source)boisterous = noisy and unrestrained
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But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. (source)
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Referring to Sunday's boisterous Maple Leaf Gardens rally in Toronto, when 15,000 Communists staged a hysterical welcome for their leader Tim Buck, jailed for seditious conspiracy but paroled Saturday from Kingston's Portsmouth Penitentiary, Mr. Griffen expressed himself alarmed by the Government's "caving in to pressure" in the form of a petition signed by 200,000 "deluded bleeding hearts."† (source)
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But it just so happens that the lieutenant overhears this exchange and, in a boisterous frame of mind, imagines that here is a perfect opportunity to teach some dandies a thing or two about games of chance.† (source)
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Lotte was enchanted by their one-year-old, Felix, who hopped around boisterously to the music.† (source)
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Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off.† (source)
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She thought of their disorderly games and their boisterous laughs, their secretive glances.† (source)
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Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.† (source)
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She needed Wendy's boisterousness as balance to her own caution, Wendy's bluntness as antidote to her reserve.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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and Boris was just as interested, and curious, as I might have been if Judy from Karmeywallag or some other mythical person of his past had turned up — but we were drunk and too boisterous and I felt that we might be upsetting Mrs. DeFrecs, who though smiling politely was sitting rather still in a hall chair with her tiny beringed hands folded in her lap and not saying much.† (source)
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Emerging boisterously from the close confines of the den, the pups also became active — to the point of total exhaustion.† (source)
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But I did not....There was no panic, no frenzy, no boisterousness, but only the haste which the situation authorized.† (source)
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Wylis was quiet and formal, Wendel loud and boisterous; both had ostentatious walrus mustaches and heads as bare as a baby's bottom; neither seemed to own a single garment that was not spotted with food stains.† (source)
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Often men on the gill-netters yelled loudly and boisterously, "Watch where you're going, you fools.† (source)
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She sternly repressed a tendency to boisterousness when she reflected that Sidney Lanier must have been somewhat like her long-departed cousin, Joshua Singleton St. Clair, whose private literary preserves stretched from the Black Belt to Bayou La Batre.† (source)
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Dan Needham hated madeup words, and he became quite boisterous on the subject of what wintertime events Mr. Tubulari was competing in; the fanatic had gone to Alaska, or maybe Minnesota.† (source)
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