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  • Enormous buildings stretched to the sky in the distance while raucous traffic whizzed through Greenwich Village streets.†   (source)
  • A television set blared in the background, and I could hear raucous shouts and an occasional high-pitched scream.†   (source)
  • The wind blew from off the water to the northwest and swept raucously down Hill Street.†   (source)
  • Up in one of the elms an old black crow gave its raucous cry, and a woodpecker went into a wild rat-a-tat-tat.†   (source)
  • By the time she made it to the Great Hall, it was raucous with a few thousand Circlers.†   (source)
  • Our once-raucous fans were stunned into silence, and that's when it happened.†   (source)
  • And in the morning, long before the child stirs, I hear the gulls and I think about the tomato-red pickup cruising the coastal road between Hampton Beach and Rye Harbor; I hear the raucous, embattled crows, whose shrill disputations and harangues remind me that I have awakened in the real world—in the world I know—after all.†   (source)
  • Sober women became crude, lusty, raucous.†   (source)
  • And he was finding that he had a man's thirst, to the raucous delight of the youths around him, who urged him on every time he drained a glass.†   (source)
  • His crew erupted into raucous laughter, as though this were all the best of fun.†   (source)
  • As they were making a way round the raucous tables Turner saw a naval party coming along the front and stopped to watch.†   (source)
  • As Kit lay wide awake in the blackness, some distant shouts, a snatch of raucous, unrestrained singing such as she had never heard before in Wethersfield, sent her mind back to the days of her childhood.†   (source)
  • She told Len to meet her at a loud and raucous store in the mall near the grocery store.†   (source)
  • She could hear the raucous, scrambled world inside his head.†   (source)
  • Someone in the hushed bar suddenly laughed raucously at how stupid everyone had become.†   (source)
  • Raucous moments on the bus when he was sure that everyone was laughing at them.†   (source)
  • But the raucous swallows, the woman's droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her.†   (source)
  • The easy one was in a high school classroom in the Bronx: pregnant moms, assorted cabdrivers, and a raucous gaggle of Grand Concourse homegirls with short fur jackets and sparkle fingernails.†   (source)
  • Dimly he heard Saphira bugle and the warriors cheering raucously around them.†   (source)
  • And my father sang raucously and joyously: Heigh-ho, the merry-o, The farmer in the dell.†   (source)
  • There was raucous laughter.†   (source)
  • I don't know where the pounding starts, but someone drums their fists against the wall, and someone else joins in, and I walk down the aisle between solemn-but raucous Dauntless traitors, their hands in motion at their sides.†   (source)
  • They were joking loudly among themselves, laughing raucously and punching each other's arms.†   (source)
  • Because of the season, the train was especially crowded, especially raucous, filled with families on holiday.†   (source)
  • He played guitar in a garage band—at the school's annual talent show, they played a raucous take on "House of the Rising Sun.†   (source)
  • The gathering crows took to the air, cawing raucously, as if applauding.†   (source)
  • When the raucous scream of a seagull woke her, Hilde got out of bed.†   (source)
  • I can hear the magpies-they're laughing, mocking me, a raucous cackling.†   (source)
  • Melekhin laughed raucously.†   (source)
  • She gave a sigh of contentment and forgot all about the sordid surroundings, the peeling walls, the cold metal cupboards, the dreadful instruments, the smell of disinfectant, and even that raucous pain that had settled inside her.†   (source)
  • Outside Goetz's apartment building, on the evening of the verdict, there was a raucous, impromptu street party.†   (source)
  • If I grew a bit too raucous, he'd put a vise grip on my shoulder and whisper hot breath inside my ear.†   (source)
  • Their racy humor, raucous laughter, and breezy, unearned intimacy with me make me a little nervous.†   (source)
  • What a raucousness of brute aggression filled the house, making it seem as though the walls would fly apart.†   (source)
  • On March 28, March 29, and March 30, Philip Malloy caused a disturbance in his homeroom class (Margaret Narwin, teacher) by singing the national anthem in a loud, raucous, disrespectful manner.†   (source)
  • Raising raucous cries, the crows soar down to all parts of the city like dive bombers.†   (source)
  • "Look like you people done got serious about your drinking, too," she said, in a raucous, whiskey voice.†   (source)
  • As we talked, a raucous group of women surrounded Harper, teasing her and thanking her in Swahili, all at the same time—and she was laughing and retorting in rapid-fire Swahili.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, Garden City, which was once a rather raucous frontier town, is quite subdued.†   (source)
  • (MAMA and RUTH look at each other and burst into raucous laughter) Don't worry—I don't expect you to understand†   (source)
  • The auditorium rings with raucous cheering as teams prepare their robots for battle.†   (source)
  • He went to a bar in a sidestreet where the raucous hybrid beerhall music of the north was blaring from an open door and he got very drunk and got in a fight and woke in the gray dawn on an iron bed in a green room with paper curtains at a window beyond which he could hear roosters calling.†   (source)
  • Another raucous round of cheers and whistles and clapping and foot pounding went on for a good minute or two.†   (source)
  • said Marie-Claude in a raucous voice.†   (source)
  • A running string of jokes, plenty of harmless interest in Elizabeth, and two beers each, which added to the raucous spirit.†   (source)
  • The latter were looked upon with some suspicion because they were so loud and raucous in their services.†   (source)
  • Dunbar shouted at him emphatically in a voice rising clearly above the raucous commotion.†   (source)
  • A raucous cheer erupted from the students, accompanied by enthusiastic banging on the tables and the stamping of many feet.†   (source)
  • The raucous party continued for some time before Essey said to me, "Do you not have a wish?"†   (source)
  • An estimated hundred thousand Irish citizens line the streets of that raucous port city on the west coast of Ireland.†   (source)
  • He could just as easily have said twenty minutes, and now that he was alone, assaulted by what city people regard as raucous silence, he wished he had said five minutes.†   (source)
  • It was just about to stab when Bigwig ran straight into it from behind and knocked it sideways, so that it staggered across the turf with a harsh, raucous cawing of rage.†   (source)
  • Laughter drifts upstairs from the locker room, loud and raucous.†   (source)
  • She stopped the car in Dr. Finch's driveway, climbed the high front steps to his house, knocked on the door, and went in, singing in a raucous voice: "Old Uncle Jack with his cane and his crutch When he was young he boogie-woogied too much; Put the sales tax on it—" Dr. Finch's house was small, but the front hallway was enormous.†   (source)
  • What Franklin noticed was that those lyrics could be transferred nicely to another tune: specifically, the raucous, rousing tune of the Roy Acuff hillbilly standard, "The Wabash Cannonball" ("Listen to the jingle/The rumble and the roar/As she glides along the woodlands/through the hills and by the shore").†   (source)
  • Finally, the raucous fledglings quieted.†   (source)
  • Mortenson's peaceful morning gatherings over tea in the lobby of the Indus Hotel grew too large for the two tables and had to be moved to a banquet room upstairs, where the meetings became increasingly raucous.†   (source)
  • We reach the mess hall, and the cacophony within hits us like a wave—laughter and boasts and the raucous talk of three thousand young men on the verge of leave or graduation.†   (source)
  • My reverie was punctured by a raucous cackling and complaining from a tiny house floating past us.†   (source)
  • The conference was over; the buyer left the cubicle and started across the crowded, raucous, smoke-layered barroom toward the door.†   (source)
  • I pick it up, and I'm in a raucous music hall.†   (source)
  • They left the lazy, insect-humming air of the bayou behind and landed in bustling, raucous New Orleans.†   (source)
  • "Cowboy Charlie" Irwin ran two businesses: a raucous Wild West show in summer and an even more raucous racing stable in winter.†   (source)
  • I think about all that great early punk and the raucous paintings I used to do.†   (source)
  • With their raucous laughter, their unshavenness, their skin diseases, their syphilis, and their apparent delight in killing, they seemed as overpowering as the war itself.†   (source)
  • She hunted for symphony concerts and twisted the dial rapidly past whenever she caught the raucous syllables of a news broadcast; she did not want any news from the city.†   (source)
  • No decorations or raucous sounds of a wedding band gave any hint that anything special was happening in the village on that day.†   (source)
  • Striving to block out the voices of the raucous group, Joe searched his ashen eyes in the mirror, wondering what his motives had been when he sent the boy to scope out the men in the Hawaiian shirts.†   (source)
  • He is so much like me when I was ten, so unlike our Mitt, whom Lelia and my father and I let raucously trample over all our custom and ceremony.†   (source)
  • A police car radio cackled raucously.†   (source)
  • He heard a man cry a raucous greeting.†   (source)
  • He wondered if someday Merrick would be proposed to in this swing, if Redcliffe's children would swoop back and forth in it so raucously that their mother would seize the ropes to slow it down.†   (source)
  • Now birds came no more, for the tannery lay close-except crows and kites and such scavenging birds, eager for the town's offal, or sometimes a pal-pitta, skimming past with raucous cry but never stopping, perhaps dropping a blue-black feather in flight to delight the children.†   (source)
  • From outside came a whistle as wild and raucous as a reed and pitched high and strange.†   (source)
  • An audible feel of chagrin in the car, making itself known by soft moans and sighs, was drowned out by the boys' raucous cheers, at first so deafening and then so continuous that Sophie, rigidly immobilized in the blackest dark, knew in a flash that no cry or protest would avail her when she felt, now, from behind her the hand slither up between her thighs underneath her skirt.†   (source)
  • There came another flash of trumpets and a raucous sound upon the air.†   (source)
  • On occasion Anthony grew raucous and irascible and Florence released him into limitless freedom outside.†   (source)
  • Round and round the fire he strutted, pantomimed, and pranced; then he screwed up his mouth and burst into shrill, raucous singing.†   (source)
  • Their song is charming —a bit raucous perhaps, but it does have charm!†   (source)
  • It was a long low building near the harbour and the scene which they found going on inside was very much like any other auction; that is to say, there was a great crowd and Pug, on a platform, was roaring out in a raucous voice: "Now, gentlemen, lot twenty-three.†   (source)
  • In every way she called for the attention; the motions of her head with its feather, and of her arms and hips, were as raucous and hilarious as the sound that was played in her insides.†   (source)
  • And amid a hail of derisory images came the raucous cry of a backbiter: "Who stole the weather, Powell?"†   (source)
  • Draco Malfoy was miming the shatterering of a nose to raucous laughter and applause.†   (source)
  • Their reactions unsettled Eragon far more than the raucous exchange had.†   (source)
  • From a distance he heard the raucous singing.†   (source)
  • 'Not yet —' The woman who had mimicked him let out a raucous scream of laughter.†   (source)
  • Through the walls of the passenger quarters I caught a wave of raucous laughter.†   (source)
  • The other two guys poke their heads out the window and laugh raucously as they go by.†   (source)
  • Except for Stargirl jabbering in my ear, the usual raucous chatter was absent.†   (source)
  • The noise of the birds was audible now, a raucous cawing, almost like high-pitched laugher.†   (source)
  • The sounds of music and raucous laughter drifted out and floated over the water.†   (source)
  • Don't be like that, sugar," he called, and the raucous laughter started again behind me.†   (source)
  • The gull cried once more, a raucous scream, forlorn.†   (source)
  • Screaming, barking, raucous, joyous scene.†   (source)
  • "Enough," said Lord Commander Mormont over the bird's raucous calls.†   (source)
  • From time to time one would let out a raucous scream.†   (source)
  • The sea outside was a raucous blue, dusted with tiny whitecaps.†   (source)
  • Max heard music within, the tinkling of glasses, and raucous laughter.†   (source)
  • ...Ten thousand, Dr. Gates, or I go to the raucous bar of my choice.†   (source)
  • With a raucous scream and a clap of wings, a huge raven burst out of the kettle.†   (source)
  • The fans went wild, taking up a raucous cheer: "Bring on War Admiral!†   (source)
  • (WALTER'S voice calls for them raucously) WALTER: (Off stage) Y'all come on†   (source)
  • He gave one of his raucous cries and was gone to the southward.†   (source)
  • They borrowed a pickax from a group of raucous and euphoric German men and took their turns.†   (source)
  • Marie-Claude shook her head and said in her raucous voice, No, no, you're wrong!†   (source)
  • A whole flock of birds; and not loopy-plumed songbirds, but scrappy, raucous brown birds with teeth.†   (source)
  • The birds of paradise passed; their raucous cries faded.†   (source)
  • He's leafing through a newspaper and only looks up when there's a raucous burst of laughter.†   (source)
  • The besiegers gave him a raucous welcome as soon as he reached the camp.†   (source)
  • "If you were to—" Kehaar called raucously across, startling a wren out of the bushes.†   (source)
  • Randy heard the Model-A's horn, raucous as an angry goose, and saw it pull up to the curb.†   (source)
  • Hermione, we haven't got anything to change into," Ron told her, as a young woman burst into raucous giggles at the sight of him.†   (source)
  • As the sun got lower and lower the birds began singing and calling, unseen, hidden in the branches and vines of the forest: raucous croaks and whistles, and four clear sounds in a row, like a bell.†   (source)
  • The windowpanes are so grimy he can scarcely see out of them, the blankets smell of mildew; directly below his room, a group of raucous drinkers carouses till well past midnight.†   (source)
  • Ron made a triumphant gesture with his fist and went into a raucous peal of laughter that made several timid-looking second-years over beside the window jump.†   (source)
  • Waving her arms like a conductor, she led them in a raucous "Happy Birthday" and dished out generous gobs of ice cream.†   (source)
  • Raucous singing was borne toward them on the night air as they retraced their steps along the lantern-lit path, and leprechauns kept shooting over their heads, cackling and waving their lanterns.†   (source)
  • Harry ate breakfast each morning in the Leaky Cauldron, where he liked watching the other guests: funny little witches from the country, up for a day's shopping; venerable-looking wizards arguing over the latest article in Transfiguration Today; wild-looking warlocks; raucous dwarfs; and once, what looked suspiciously like a hag, who ordered a plate of raw liver from behind a thick woollen balaclava.†   (source)
  • The pub was silent for a moment longer and then, embarrassingly enough, the man with the raucous laugh did it again.†   (source)
  • She's pretty sharp, most days"—and here he'd wink at her as if he were a captain and she his first mate, the two of them veterans of many raucous adventures and forever devoted to each other.†   (source)
  • She sat down on her bed without removing her clothes and waited in the dark until the twins' raucous shouts in the room next door and the servants' footsteps had subsided, and the doors, the locks, and the whole house had settled into sleep.†   (source)
  • Lights twinkled from windows over shops and as they neared the Three Broomsticks they heard raucous shouting.†   (source)
  • As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes.†   (source)
  • If I told him something funny that happened at school, he was an attentive and appreciative audience; unlike Mrs. Swanson (who froze and looked startled when I made a joke) or Dave (who chuckled, but awkwardly, and always a beat too late), he liked to laugh, and I loved it when he told me stories of his own life: raucous late-marrying uncles and busybody nuns of his childhood, the third-rate boarding school on the Canadian border where his teachers had all been drunks, the big house upstate that his father kept so cold there was ice on the inside of the windows, gray December afternoons reading Tacitus or Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic.†   (source)
  • It's too raucous.†   (source)
  • "Corn," it muttered in a raucous voice.†   (source)
  • The laughing and yelping made a raucous counterpoint to the metronomic tock-tock-tock of the bunny's never-ending hop.†   (source)
  • 'I would remind you that you live here only because the Ministry of Magic permits you certain areas of land —' An arrow flew so close to her head that it caught at her mousy hair in passing: she let out an ear-splitting scream and threw her hands over her head, while some of the centaurs bellowed their approval and others laughed raucously.†   (source)
  • And his father began to sing, in his old raucous voice, and Adam joined in and after a while his mother did, too, shaking her head in assumed dismay.†   (source)
  • A raven landed on the grey stone sill, opened its beak, and gave a harsh, raucous rattle of distress.†   (source)
  • The car brushes by and hands reach out for me, pushing, grabbing, and I lose my balance, the bike wavers under me and heads for the ditch, the steep ravine by the side of the road, and I am helpless to halt its progress toward the ditch, and the wheels spin and I hear raucous laughter as I loom at the edge of the ditch and then feel myself falling, spinning, sucked into the ditch, sucked into the wetness and darkness of a sudden startling nighttime.†   (source)
  • A dog barked as he rode through, and he heard a mule's raucous haw from the stable, but otherwise the village was still.†   (source)
  • Ned heard applause, cheers, whistles, shocked gasps, excited muttering, and over it all the rasping, raucous laughter of the Hound.†   (source)
  • His bird made a raucous echo.†   (source)
  • A raucous commotion filled the clearing as Jormundur and his men directed the onlookers back to their tents, laying about them with swagger sticks whenever the reluctant warriors lingered or protested.†   (source)
  • The place was raucous and crowded.†   (source)
  • The coach's voice, raucous in triumph.†   (source)
  • Outside the hollow, the hunting cries of the hounds sounded louder than ever, their overeager yelps echoing off the trees in a raucous din.†   (source)
  • Miro had learned the trick of humming silently, running a song through his mind, and he did this now, an old Presley song without the sneer in it, "Love Me Tender," not like some of Presley's more raucous songs.†   (source)
  • She thought she liked the sootiness of sex and its comedy; she laughed a great deal during the raucous beginnings, and rejected those lovers who regarded sex as healthy or beautiful.†   (source)
  • The sign came — two abrupt nods — as the priest turned and walked through the beaded entrance of a raucous cabaret.†   (source)
  • She laughs raucously in the halls.†   (source)
  • Here there was no loud laughter, no raucous shouting such as marred the dignity of other men's feasts; Lord Stannis did not permit such.†   (source)
  • And he felt like a mother seal, yes, a mother, not some raucous coughing bull or whatever the male is called—he would have to look it up.†   (source)
  • By then the hall had grown raucous.†   (source)
  • 'Keep him under arrest!' the M.P. shouted, doubling over with raucous laughter at his jest, and sped away in his jeep.†   (source)
  • Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials.†   (source)
  • She stands there, immobile, clutching the sheet against her silk blouse, when someone yells in raucous Brooklynese, "Gaaahbage!†   (source)
  • The raucous crowds have gotten in the habit of trampling shrubbery and causing traffic headaches on the narrow beachfront streets in their desire to catch a glimpse of JFK and Jackie.†   (source)
  • Together they created a host of raucous echoes that made it impossible to determine the number of people approaching.†   (source)
  • On the northeast fringe of the city, Cedric Gilliam pecks Sherene, his new girlfriend, on the cheek as lie slips through the door of the Chateau-a raucous black nightclub-where she works as a hostess.†   (source)
  • "Now you're the one who's pazzo," said the Mafia count quietly, in counterpoint to the capo supremo's raucous yelling.†   (source)
  • They weren't raucous or moody.†   (source)
  • On March 28, March 29, and March 30, Philip Malloy deliberately caused a disturbance in his homeroom class (Margaret Narwin, a teacher of twenty years' standing) by singing the national anthem in a loud, raucous, disrespectful fashion, thereby drawing attention to himself and away from the words.†   (source)
  • The streets of King's Landing had always been teeming and raucous and noisy, but now they reeked of danger in a way that he did not recall from past visits.†   (source)
  • They call each other "kid" and make raucous comments about their work, and smoke in the washroom, as if it's naughty.†   (source)
  • On March 28, March 29, and March 30, Philip Malloy deliberately caused a disturbance in his homeroom class (Margaret Narwin, teacher) by singing the national anthem in a loud, raucous, disrespectful fashion, thereby drawing attention to himself.†   (source)
  • The music changed, becoming louder and swifter and more raucous; and all their attention returned, with relief, to the dance floor.†   (source)
  • She did not look at all disturbed; in fact, she looked like the very same woman who had said the day before in a raucous voice, That pendant is ugly!†   (source)
  • A flock of ravens rose from inside the walls when they climbed through the broken gate, and the caged ravens in their wagons called out to them with quorks and raucous shrieks.†   (source)
  • Looking across the raucous cafeteria crowd, Cedric is reminded of the assembly-probably most of these kids were there-and what he said that day to Mr. Taylor, about how not going made him feel ashamed.†   (source)
  • During volleyball games, these other girls lollop and thunder around me, their voices outsized and raucous, their new, extra flesh wobbling.†   (source)
  • We'd wake up late and stay on the course until dusk, and then eat a heavy dinner at a raucous lounge or striptease club where the others would drink like madmen until the early hours, when I'd have to drive us back to the hotel.†   (source)
  • As they squatted, looking at the bird—for they both sensed intuitively that it would not rise—it suddenly burst into loud, raucous cries—"Yark!†   (source)
  • The carrion crows wheeled about the gatehouse in raucous unkindness and quarreled upon the ramparts over every eye, screaming and cawing at each other and taking to the air whenever a sentry passed along the battlements.†   (source)
  • Like the suburban white kids who could afford to party and experiment in their safe realms, similar privileges were extended to these mostly middle-class blacks, who now can cherry pick some raucous ingredients from the black urban buffet to fire the mix.†   (source)
  • They were not meant to be combative; the raucous laughter immediately following them made it clear that by rejecting the pendant Marie-Claude did not wish to jeopardize her friendship with Sabina.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Woundwort leaped backward and in the same moment, through the all-enveloping sound of the rain, there sounded a raucous clamor.†   (source)
  • During languid second and third cups of coffee and tea, David Korb tells everyone a raucous tale of a Spanish emigre friend-Juanito, who once attended Thanksgiving here-and how he got lost in New York, "running uptown and downtown in his yellow shorts, yellow T-shirt, camera strapped around his neck dripping with sweat ...yelling to himself, 'Where am I, how did I get here?'†   (source)
  • "Oh, he will, don't worry," says Barbara sheepishly, before she's drowned out by the Ballou chorus as it launches into a soulful rendition of the old spiritual "Amazing Grace," changes course midway into the Afrocentrically sensible theme from Disney's Lion King, and finishes raucously on "got no worries, for the rest of your days, it's my trouble free philosophy, Hacuna Matata."†   (source)
  • Hazel could not help wondering whether he really would return, for he knew that Kehaar, like themselves, felt the mating urge and he thought it quite likely that after all he would be off to the Big Water and the raucous, teeming gull colonies of which he had spoken with such feeling to Bigwig.†   (source)
  • hard-drinking, hard-talking, with whisky-and cigarette-breath, and moving with the mystic authority of women who knew what sweet violence might be acted out under the moon and stars, or beneath the tigerish lights of the city, in the raucous hay or the singing bed.†   (source)
  • The floors, walls, ceilings and even most of the furniture of each hallway and room varied slightly in hue—due to an uneven paint job—from the tender rosé of fresh lox to a more aggressive bubble-gum coral, but everywhere there was pink, pink admitting rivalry from no other color, so that after only a few minutes contemplating my prospective room under the proud eye of Mrs. Zimmerman, I felt at first amused—it was a cupid's bower in which one could only barely restrain raucous laughter—and then really grimly trapped, as if I were in a Barricini candy store or the infants' department at Gimbels.†   (source)
  • Sissy grabbed Neeley's arm, but with a raucous cry, he twisted loose and ran down the street.†   (source)
  • The receiver yelled raucously at the end.†   (source)
  • Here were no tenements or raucous shabby stores.†   (source)
  • There he was lean and red and raucous, preaching love from a platform (there were ants crawling about among the plantains which she disturbed with her brush—red, energetic, shiny ants, rather like Charles Tansley).†   (source)
  • There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair.†   (source)
  • Vera said with a raucous laugh: "Cold?†   (source)
  • Helen burst into a raucous angry laugh, looking at his sullen face, and prodding him roughly with her big fingers.†   (source)
  • "Comfortable?" he echoed raucously.†   (source)
  • There was a jumble of bright sweaters, and scarves fluttering in the wind; a jumble of voices shrieking without purpose over the roar of the motor, and overstressed hiccoughs of laughter; a girl sat sidewise, her legs flung over the side of the car; she wore a man's straw hat slipping down to her nose and she yanked savagely at the strings of a ukulele, ejecting raucous sounds, yelling "Hey!†   (source)
  • But there was no word here of the loud raucous voice of America, political conventions and the Big Brass Band, Tweed, Tammany, the Big Stick, lynching bees and black barbecue parties, the Boston Irish, and the damnable machinations of the Pope as exposed by the Babylon Hollow Trumpet (Dem.)†   (source)
  • And Eugene noted, with the old baffling shame again, as this cheap tableau of self-conscious, robust, and raucously aggressive boyhood was posed, that, for all the mouthing of phrases, the jargon about fair play and sportsmanship, the weaker, at Leonard's, was the legitimate prey of the stronger.†   (source)
  • He filled one of his mother's long black stockings with ashes and roamed the streets with his gang swinging his homely blackjack and crying out raucously from time to time.†   (source)
  • His deep, raucous voice had thrilled them as it uttered the word of belief and submission.†   (source)
  • Hulloos, laughter, and raucous congratulations!†   (source)
  • But the Sondelius who was raucous in conversation could be almost silent at work.†   (source)
  • Digamma Pi was more annoyed by Martin's restless doubtings than by Fatty's idiocy, Clif Clawson's raucousness, Angus Duer's rasping, or the Reverend Ira Hinkley's nagging.†   (source)
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