"Pugnacious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the effect upon Helen was peculiar. From the pugnacious attitude of an outraged canary, ready to do battle, she was transformed into the sweetest, meekest love-bird imaginable. A veritable little preening, posing, oh-do-admire-me creature, and at Polly's last words she jumped from the box and clasping ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... by bearing this in mind that we see the force of St. Paul's answer. He does not insist on the word; he does not fight even for this sacred title; he does not take it up as a pugnacious champion might take up the glove which his adversary had thrown down; he does not say, "Iwould that thou wast a Christian." In his answer he bears his testimony to one of the gravest, the most fruitful, of all theological ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... then!" said Fred. "I propose Monty for leader. Those against the motion take their shirts off, and see if they can lick me! Nobody pugnacious? The ayes have it! ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... her at that moment. She would give vent to her hatred. She would turn the disagreeable, pugnacious, upstart ...
— The Time of Roses • L. T. Meade
... frosty weather; Charlie and I used to die of laughing at him. I think cold made him pugnacious; he seemed always ready for a row, and was constantly in one. The January frost came in our Christmas holidays, so Jem had lots of time on his hands; he spent almost all of it out of doors, and he devoted a good deal of it to fighting ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
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