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  • We crossed the square where Leon heroically nursed his wife, and then raised his boisterous children with a devotion that amazed us all.†   (source)
  • But boisterous as it was, the sound was friendly.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Sweet cordials and heavy ales were consumed in copious amounts, adding to the boisterous atmosphere.†   (source)
  • I listened intently to their quiet footsteps, which were much too quiet when compared to the boisterous noise they'd been making earlier, and it didn't sound like they were speeding up, or getting any closer to me.†   (source)
  • It filled the night air as if it had been only waiting for Meggie's footsteps: strange music, a carnival mixture of bells, pipes, and drums, both boisterous and sad.†   (source)
  • His parents are diffident around Maxine, at first keeping their distance, not boisterous as they typically are around their Bengali friends.†   (source)
  • As boisterous and animated as Martin Silenus seemed upon first encounter, so the next guest at the table exuded an immediate and equally impressive sense of intelligent reticence.†   (source)
  • She had the high teased hair, the short tight skirts, the "raccoon" style makeup and boisterous presence.†   (source)
  • Down the hall we could hear him enter another exam room and boisterously greet an expectant mother with jolly banter.†   (source)
  • She came on late, and by then the place was crowded and noisy, though the audience occasionally fell silent over their beer, listening to the music, and the knocking between pieces grew loud and boisterous.†   (source)
  • Nothing like the boisterous, giggling behavior I expect from them.†   (source)
  • Later, a madam named Chicago May recalled the boisterous year of the fair with a cringe: "What dreadful things were done by some of the girls!†   (source)
  • She needed Wendy's boisterousness as balance to her own caution, Wendy's bluntness as antidote to her reserve.†   (source)
  • They both made the same gesture of surprise that they both knew was feigned, and together they strolled the first-class deck, crowded with young people, most of them boisterous students who, with some eagerness, were exhausting themselves in the final fling of their vacation.†   (source)
  • Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.†   (source)
  • Too many boisterous laughs and overly enthusiastic greetings.†   (source)
  • The room was boisterous, as it always was.†   (source)
  • Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies.†   (source)
  • We were met by guards with automatic weapons; the atmosphere was tense but quiet, unlike the boisterous reception I had received on my arrival on the island two years before.†   (source)
  • Bachelli became loud and boisterous, screaming about Adowa, which was enough to get him beaten up if he persisted.†   (source)
  • He ordered a bottle and a glass, but the boisterous mule skinners made so much racket he couldn't enjoy his drinking.†   (source)
  • His voice is boisterous, laughing, but the smile doesn't travel to his eyes.†   (source)
  • Alec let out a huge, boisterous laugh, like he didn't have a care in the world.†   (source)
  • My father was a messy eater, a boisterous kind of person, not really suited to the fancy restaurants he liked to frequent.†   (source)
  • Near the back wall, a few boisterous and obnoxious kids grow quiet, flipping through the glossy applications book.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the dance was formal and stately, sometimes fiery and boisterous.†   (source)
  • The usually boisterous team lining the alley was almost silent as Adam faced off against one of the bigger varsity linemen.†   (source)
  • She seemed in a good mood, even a little boisterous, and tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in, things had just worked out that way: she was in Prague on business, perhaps (at this point she became rather vague) to find a job.†   (source)
  • The people around us were hardworking, boisterous, a little proud of their nickname, yo-go-re, which meant literally uncouth one, or roughneck, or dead-end kid.†   (source)
  • The black women played far more boisterous games of Spades a few tables over; the Italians sniffed that they all cheated.†   (source)
  • Buckheath burst put boisterously.†   (source)
  • Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.†   (source)
  • Other than the boisterous revolutionaries who had invaded our lives in Corpus Christi, most of the Iranians I knew were cultured and polite.†   (source)
  • But I did not....There was no panic, no frenzy, no boisterousness, but only the haste which the situation authorized.†   (source)
  • The "contrary" winds of the afternoon of March 5, the storm that followed that night, and the "weather continuing boisterous the next day and night" were the deciding factors, Howe wrote, in that they gave the enemy still more time to improve their defenses of the Heights.†   (source)
  • It did not seem just that these boisterous, immature young men should show up after all the work was done and be allowed to take possession of the most desirable tent on the island.†   (source)
  • Pete had resembled Mike: big, at six foot four; boisterous, handsome with a white-toothed smile; full of life.†   (source)
  • Her boisterous laughter vibrated in the room.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • All this occurred nearly simultaneously-the boisterous, lively discussion between the two men who argued over a dice game, the soft putt-putt and clatter of John's motorcar pulling down the long drive and past Rose Red and into the center hall of the Carriage House, the oily stench of the car's exhaust.†   (source)
  • It has the energy of a larger place because of the boisterous crowd, but it's more of a lounge than a modern club.†   (source)
  • Born in November 1909, Johnny was the liveliest member of a clever and boisterous family.†   (source)
  • Jessica shivered when the last bell rang and headed into the crush of the loud and boisterous hallway with relief.†   (source)
  • But even the common soldiers were a loud, swaggering, boisterous bunch.†   (source)
  • The passengers were divided into three distinct categories: returning residents of the Portuguese colony — in the main Chinese and silent; professional gamblers — a racial mix talking quietly when they talked at all, continually glancing around to size up their competition; and late night revellers — boisterous tourists, exclusively white, many of them drunk, in oddly shaped hats and loud tropical shirts.†   (source)
  • The group was becoming boisterous enough to attract attention on the street.†   (source)
  • The gym was almost empty when I heard Misty's loud, boisterous voice calling for me to come on, we were going to be late for English.†   (source)
  • The cadets were rowdy and boisterous and chanting for revenge.†   (source)
  • I didn't know him well, never knew him in the boisterous days when he was called Red.†   (source)
  • Emerging boisterously from the close confines of the den, the pups also became active — to the point of total exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Often men on the gill-netters yelled loudly and boisterously, "Watch where you're going, you fools.†   (source)
  • He was boisterous, loud and guileless.†   (source)
  • Another point: I no longer had to worry about the boisterous noise of lovemaking from above.†   (source)
  • The general effect was one of boisterous and uninhibited lightheartedness, more in the style of 1890 than of 1963.†   (source)
  • When his guests had departed, rather less boisterously than usual, he bad thoughtfully rolled the table back into its corner.†   (source)
  • Again they drank and sang and were boisterous, but this time there were only young people present.†   (source)
  • But he stared at their boisterous, laughing faces, and felt that they would have much to answer for on the day of judgment, for they were stumbling-stones in the path of the true believer.†   (source)
  • Outside the mirror's frame, the flat of Miss Theo's hand came down on mankind with a boisterous sound.†   (source)
  • It is a boisterous crowd, but there is more than enough security.
  • The rain outside rose in pitch, and the bistro grew more boisterous.†   (source)
  • She thought of their disorderly games and their boisterous laughs, their secretive glances.†   (source)
  • The last week of term became increasingly boisterous as it progressed.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Green Chestnut, this one was loud, clean, and full of boisterous people.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow the house would be loud and boisterous and full of life again.†   (source)
  • Arrayed before them was a richly dressed crowd that was both colorful and boisterous.†   (source)
  • He decided it did not matter and proceeded to sing boisterously, dragon's voice or not.†   (source)
  • With their cork-reddened faces and tunics, they're a merry, boisterous sight.†   (source)
  • He heard horses and boisterous shouting.†   (source)
  • They were not boisterous-they were somber, as depressed as any of the faces I'd read this morning.†   (source)
  • Mead flowed like water, and the wedding feast became ever more boisterous.†   (source)
  • As promised, the students were boisterous.†   (source)
  • Their enthusiasm for the fingerprints is boisterous.†   (source)
  • All those many boisterous, various folks.†   (source)
  • The feasting was loud and boisterous and lasted long into the night.†   (source)
  • Dave Butler led a chorus of Ligaroti cheers, and the crowd grew boisterous.†   (source)
  • The music was boisterous and filled with what seemed to be trumpets.†   (source)
  • They'd all reassured me; Alice reaching up to pat my head as I left, eyeing Jasper meaningfully until a flood of peace swirled around me, Esme kissing my forehead and promising me everything was all right, Emmett laughing boisterously and asking why I was the only one who was allowed to fight with werewolves...Jacob's solution had them all relaxed, almost euphoric after the long weeks of stress.†   (source)
  • They also skated over the accusations of bullying in the report — "He's a boisterous little boy, but he wouldn't hurt a fly!"†   (source)
  • Hari-prar and Arvind-prar didn't seem to feel the same way, and they got started on their boisterous political arguments about the future of our state more quickly than usual.†   (source)
  • One must make allowances for the years, and the speed with which babes-in-arms become boisterous ten-year-olds.†   (source)
  • It was not a boisterous drunk-for a while they chatted, then began telling jokes and making puns, until each was giggling too hard to continue.†   (source)
  • He had envied Attean his free, unhampered life in the forest, and the boisterous comradeship in the village.†   (source)
  • All the same, surrounded by loving couples and young families playing boisterously, she felt lonely as she never had before.†   (source)
  • Writing to an Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, during the debate over the Jay Treaty, Jefferson had described America as a country taken over by "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty," and by leaders who were assimilating "the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model."†   (source)
  • And "Merry" was what she was to call boisterous plump Meredyth Crane, but most definitely not Lady Merryweather, a sultry black-eyed Myrish beauty.†   (source)
  • She liked the sailors too; the boisterous Tyroshi with their booming voices and dyed whiskers; the fair-haired Lyseni, always trying to niggle down her prices; the squat, hairy sailors from the Port of Ibben, growling curses in low, raspy voices.†   (source)
  • Bessie and the other factory girls cheer wildly for her—not with the polite, tempered applause of drawing rooms but with the boisterous, joyful whoops of the music hall.†   (source)
  • He sent some salmon down to poor sad Lady Hornwood, the boar to the boisterous Umbers, a dish of goose-in-berries to Cley Cerwyn, and a huge lobster to Joseth the master of horse, who was neither lord nor guest, but had seen to Dancer's training and made it possible for Bran to ride.†   (source)
  • Alone at his desk at Poplar Forest, where more than a hundred slaves labored in the fields beyond his window, Jefferson had written one of themost impassioned denunciations of his life, decrying slavery as an extreme depravity: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions [Jefferson had written], the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.†   (source)
  • Usually such gatherings would be loud and boisterous, but there was a stillness about the air that seemed unnatural.†   (source)
  • So, at the end of a day's work filled with boisterous shouting and relaxed chatter, they would all shut themselves up within their four walls and, surrounded by contemporary furniture emanating bad taste like a cold draft, stare at the refulgent television screen.†   (source)
  • In any huge and boisterous surge of energy and enthusiasm there must be errors and miscalculations, even breach of judgment and taste.†   (source)
  • We have another old photo, this one from the twenties, that shows him standing on a railroad siding, with his boots spread wide, one hand in his jeans pocket and the other holding a wide-brim hat flung high in boisterous greeting—a Nipponese frontiersman with the pine forests rising behind him.†   (source)
  • Our families laughed boisterously.†   (source)
  • As Vanessa settled in, she got more boisterous, and she was thrilled to display her surgical glory at the merest suggestion.†   (source)
  • If I had been shipped back to Danbury, I would have received a boisterous welcome back into the fold and a hasty, tearful send-off into the outside world.†   (source)
  • Such a far-off and remembered odor comes subtly so that one does not consciously smell it, but rather an electric excitement is released—a kind of boisterous joy.†   (source)
  • In one year a child could change from a squirming baby to a boisterous talkative toddler and mothers would watch football championships and prom nights come and go from the distant sidelines, along with their children's graduations, wedding days, and funerals.†   (source)
  • Romie Lane was muddy with pools of water standing in the new wheel ruts, and the tall wild oats and mustard grew beside the road, with wild turnip forcing its boisterous way up and stickery beads of purple thistles rising above the green riot of the wet spring.†   (source)
  • In one village they saw a young Cossack surrounded by a crowd laughing boisterously, as the Cossack tossed a copper coin into the air, forcing an old Jew with a gray beard and a long caftan to catch it.†   (source)
  • And then, as he sat there, remembering again Elder Peters' boisterous, idle remark, this remark shook together in him all those shadowy doubts and fears, those hesitations and tendernesses, which were his in relation to Deborah, and the sum of which he now realized was his certainty that there was in that relationship something foreordained.†   (source)
  • The latter was no sooner visible, than Rigaud rushed at him and embraced him boisterously.†   (source)
  • He knew it to be so, and was touched with more pity; thinking of the slight figure at his side, making its nightly way through the damp dark boisterous streets to such a place of rest.†   (source)
  • As his mind was teeming with these thoughts, the encounter took him altogether unprepared, so that the other passenger had had time to say, boisterously, 'Pardon!†   (source)
  • Scuffling, laughing boisterously, they shoved each other in, yanked each other out— "Leggo!"†   (source)
  • They gathered around him boisterously, pounding his back and drawing him up to the fountain.†   (source)
  • He said boisterously, 'You're frightening us.'†   (source)
  • ROCKY—(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, dere, Hugo!†   (source)
  • He burst boisterously through a door and shouted, 'Daddy's home.'†   (source)
  • Round the plaza the evening parade went on — women in one direction, men in the other; young men in red shirts milled boisterously round the gaseosa stalls.†   (source)
  • The man in seat 6 was a noisy fellow, inclined to be facetious and boisterous, and Poirot asked the girl in a low voice if she would like to change seats with him.†   (source)
  • He even bore carelessly the first day of the New Year when his uncle and his neighbors came crowding into the house to wish his father and himself well, all boisterous with food and drink.†   (source)
  • And the townspeople paraded the brilliantly lighted streets in boisterous groups, laughing and singing.†   (source)
  • Cade Calvert was among them, a thin, gaunt Cade, who coughed continually, two of the Munroe boys, bubbling with the excitement of their first leave since 1861, and Alex and Tony Fontaine, splendidly drunk, boisterous and quarrelsome.†   (source)
  • The three brothers followed him, boisterous from the open air and their recent doings, so that now the clan was complete.†   (source)
  • We soon were kissing and feeling; she now held off my hands and now led them inside her dress, alleging instruction, boisterous that I was still cherry, and at last, from kindness, she one day said that if I'd come back in the evening I could take her home.†   (source)
  • He sings in a boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the indicated spots in the song.†   (source)
  • He laughed boisterously.†   (source)
  • Luke, listening attentively at the foot of the stairs, exploded in a loud boisterous guffaw, and the girl, her annoyance changing at once to angry amusement, walked toward her father's inquiring face, and prodded him several times in the ribs.†   (source)
  • The river, a considerable stream at this time of the year, wound among mounds and dunes of loose sand which whirled through the air all day in the boisterous spring winds.†   (source)
  • He had been standing rounds of gin in the ante-room and was slightly boisterous when he first took notice of Hooper.†   (source)
  • How could he fail to recognize at every turn reactions that were his; the efforts everyone makes to keep on the right side of other people; the obligingness sometimes shown in helping someone who has lost his way, and the ill humor shown at other times; the way people flock to the luxury restaurants, their pleasure at being there and their reluctance to leave; the crowds lining up daily at the picturehouses, filling theaters and music halls and even dance halls, and flooding boisterously out into the squares and avenues; the shrinking from every contact and, notwithstanding, the craving for human warmth that urges people to one another, body to body, sex to sex?†   (source)
  • But he wasn't silent any more, and his old reserve was gone to pieces; he was boisterous, capricious, haughty, critical, arbitrary, mimicking and deviling, and he crowed, croaked, made faces and had the table all but spinning in this dining room of stable and upright wealth.†   (source)
  • He laughed boisterously at what she had done and then he thought of a merry thing to say, "So this is why you bore two jewels in your bosom!"†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha's customary verve and impudence had vanished, and with it her boisterous manner that was part of her even when she spoke quietly.†   (source)
  • During luncheon she sent him to the car for her cigarettes, and once or twice when he was talking very big, she apologized for him, saying: "Remember he's a colonial," to which he replied with boisterous laughter.†   (source)
  • But I never had any special grief from it, or brooded, being by and large too larky and boisterous to take it to heart, and looked at it as needing no more special explanation than the stone-and-bat wars of the street gangs or the swarming on a fall evening of parish punks to rip up fences, screech and bawl at girls, and beat up strangers.†   (source)
  • The carriers, waiting in a boisterous line, filed up to the circulation manager's desk, depositing their collections, cold handfuls of greasy coin.†   (source)
  • They looked a strange crowd to me; the emotions of leave-taking were just beginning to subside; some of them, who had been drinking till the last moment with those who were seeing them off, were still boisterous; others were planning where they would have their deck chairs; the band played unnoticed—all were as restless as ants.†   (source)
  • 'The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously.†   (source)
  • The berry pickers, youths and maidens, laughed and shouted boisterously.†   (source)
  • "I'm like a pig's tail, I curl because I canna help it," he laughed, rather boisterously.†   (source)
  • "What, are thee there!" he said boisterously.†   (source)
  • There are boisterous couples, who tear wildly about the room, knocking every one out of their way.†   (source)
  • Griffiths became more talkative and so boisterous that Philip, amused, had to beg him to be quiet.†   (source)
  • If ever, spectacled and stooped, he had looked old, now he was young and boisterous.†   (source)
  • But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs.†   (source)
  • "Will I not?" said Dick, somewhat boisterously.†   (source)
  • He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air.†   (source)
  • With boisterous mirth they dropped upon their knees in a body and did mock homage to their prey.†   (source)
  • Miss Violet's tastes were, on the contrary, more rude and boisterous than those of her sister.†   (source)
  • 'Tis lucky thou hast seen the sight;
    The boisterous guests approach that were invited.†   (source)
  • He laughed and talked with a strange boisterousness, as the people thought.†   (source)
  • 'Ecod,' said Mr Browdie, laughing boisterously, 'they dean't put too much intiv'em.†   (source)
  • But his companion rallied him on being so silent, and they talked and laughed boisterously.†   (source)
  • The Vicar of Blackstable was a little embarrassed by Mr. Watson's boisterous heartiness, and in a moment or two got up.†   (source)
  • Boisterous talk and laughter among the drinking men drowned, except at intervals, the low, brief talk of the gamblers.†   (source)
  • He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.†   (source)
  • Even under the glow of his wine he was never boisterous, though he found the stuff like a magician's wand for wonder-building.†   (source)
  • The wind was becoming boisterous, rattling the leaded windows and the massive doors of the old-fashioned house: it shook the trees outside and roared down the vast chimney.†   (source)
  • Why are they so boisterous and merry?†   (source)
  • "Plenty of gas," said Tom boisterously.†   (source)
  • They began to laugh boisterously when they saw me, calling: 'You've got a birthday present this time, Jim, and no mistake.†   (source)
  • And this is their utterance; merry and boisterous, or mournful and wailing, or passionate and rebellious, this music is their music, music of home.†   (source)
  • He was loud and boisterous, always laughing and singing, and never able to work consecutively at anything.†   (source)
  • Loud voices and boisterous laughter, rattle of dice and scrape of chair and clink of gold, burst in mingled din from an open doorway.†   (source)
  • This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.†   (source)
  • "Ah, you can hardly do justice to the subject in such a short time," said Selden, as the Trenor girls caught sight of Miss Bart; and while she signalled a response to their boisterous greeting, he added quickly: "Won't you devote your afternoon to it?†   (source)
  • The clamor in the other cabin grew so boisterous that suddenly when it stilled Joan was brought sharply to the significance of it.†   (source)
  • Staggering homeward late that night, with all his sense of depression gone, and his head fairly clear still, he began to laugh boisterously, and to wonder how Arabella would receive him in his new aspect.†   (source)
  • Evenings she went with her husband to the motion pictures and was boisterously greeted by every other couple; or, till it became too cold, they sat on the porch, bawling to passers-by in motors, or to neighbors who were raking the leaves.†   (source)
  • Even the boisterous winds unanimously came forth from their mystic homes, and blustered about as if to enhance by their aid the wildness of the scene.†   (source)
  • He became boisterous.†   (source)
  • Good nature did not appear to be wanting, but it was not the frank and boisterous kind natural to the cowboy or rancher in town for a day.†   (source)
  • But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and the boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcate disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil,—before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.†   (source)
  • She could distinguish Sir Andrew Ffoulkes' pleasant voice, Lord Tony's boisterous guffaws, her husband's occasional, drawly, sleepy comments; then realising the loneliness of the road and the fast gathering gloom round her, she quickened her steps ...the next moment she perceived a stranger coming rapidly towards her.†   (source)
  • First into the room came Arabella boisterously; and her face was enough to show that her strategy had succeeded.†   (source)
  • He regretted that he also could not laugh boisterously, shout meaningless jokes and make of himself a figure in the endless stream of moving, giggling activity that went up and down the road.†   (source)
  • The mist was still thick on the water, but a good watch was being kept, for as Iamb' Itam approached the camp the figures of two men emerged out of the white vapour, and voices spoke to him boisterously.†   (source)
  • There was a noise that appeared almost deafening—the loud talk and vacant laughter of drinking men, and a din of creaky fiddles and scraping boots and boisterous mirth.†   (source)
  • Gottlieb, Terry Wickett, and Dr. Nicholas Yeo, that long-mustached and rustic biologist whom Martin had first taken for a carpenter, formed an independent faction of their own, and however much he disliked the boisterous Wickett, Martin was dragged into it.†   (source)
  • There were married couples looking domesticated and bored with each other in the midst of their travels; there were small parties and large parties, and lone individuals dining solemnly or feasting boisterously, but all thinking, conversing, joking, or scowling as was their wont at home; and just as intelligently receptive of new impressions as their trunks upstairs.†   (source)
  • When Philip gave her the necklace Athelny in his boisterous way insisted that she must kiss him; but Sally reddened and drew back.†   (source)
  • He was not certain that she would be pleased to see him; she had made friends in Brighton; he was quiet, and she liked boisterous joviality; he realised that she amused herself more with other people than with him.†   (source)
  • Before Inchcape Jones returned, the Commission ventured out for their first sight of the town...A Scientific Commission, yet all the while they were only boisterous Gustaf and doubtful Martin and casual Leora.†   (source)
  • In Bombay a new dock-guard, unaware of things, spoke boisterously over his family rice of a strange new custom of the rats.†   (source)
  • He thought of Mrs. Athelny, cheerful mother of many children, with her kindly hospitality and her good humour; of Sally, grave for her years, with funny little maternal ways and an air of authority, with her long plait of fair hair and her broad forehead; and then in a bunch of all the others, merry, boisterous, healthy, and handsome.†   (source)
  • When he had first come to New York, Martin had looked for Clif, whose boisterousness had been his comfort among Angus Duers and Irving Watterses in medical school.†   (source)
  • He saw that Philip was depressed by what he had gone through and with unaffected kindliness set himself boisterously to cheer him up.†   (source)
  • Athelny laughed boisterously.†   (source)
  • With this the baron fell into his chair, and laughed so loud and boisterously, that the room rang with it.†   (source)
  • How billow-like and boisterously grand!†   (source)
  • The master received their boisterous salutations with a variety of imitations from his own throat, when the dogs, probably from shame of being outdone, ceased their out —cry.†   (source)
  • It was one of those not infrequent days of an English June which are as wet and boisterous as November.†   (source)
  • And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.†   (source)
  • The mouth of the light-hearted and reckless bee-hunter was instantly closed, and he was rendered as mute, as he had just been boisterous and talkative, by the appearance of Ellen Wade.†   (source)
  • This was too much for his patience, and it was absurd to see how he started up and cuffed them soundly for their boisterous behaviour.†   (source)
  • Perceiving that it was Elizabeth she lapsed into ease, and came across to her with a reckless skip that innate grace only prevented from being boisterous.†   (source)
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