Sentence examples for robustious from inspiring English sources

To most people he seemed full of exuberant vitality, talkative, jovial and robustious, egoistic, credulous, and boastful.

"O, it offends me to the soul to see a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise," he says.

Indeed, the early sections of "The Ethics of Belief" are so stern that William James would later characterize Clifford as a "delicious enfant terrible" who defends doxastic self-control "with somewhat too much of robustious pathos in the voice" (1896, 8).