"Truculently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a chance and see," snarled Jack truculently. "She don't look no manner of a fool. It'll be a mighty fine thing for a girl of this blasted country to get a downright white husband, and I'll bet my bottom dollar this here girl's cute enough to see it—or—what the hell did she come to our shack for? And, if no such notion ever ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... gleaming interval between 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
... by!" he shouted truculently. "Who am I to sit a horse and gossip in the Khyber? Let me by, ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... with his usual suavity, but there was a veiled menace in his voice which it was impossible to overlook. Savaroff scowled at me more truculently than ever. It was obvious that both of them were entirely ignorant of Sonia's part in the affair, and suspected me of some extraordinary bit of clumsiness. I prepared ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... sudden remembrance of the playwright's powerful frame, replied, a little less truculently: "I'll call him something more fit than that when I see him. But we won't see him again. He's ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... of the hollows of the uneven plain. He saw a clump of a dozen or so cattle a little distance away. The bull looked up and snorted. The cows regarded him truculently. Their air was not one ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster |
