Example Sentences

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They are as cowardly as they are blustering, and love not the feel of hard blows upon their backs, as we have good reason to know.

From Tom Tufton's Travels by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Our newspapers and melodramas are blustering about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire.

From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard

And there are blustering, rainy, sleety, dismal, Sundays in the fall when the dead hours go in funeral procession by and the world seems a gloomy tomb.

From Their Yesterdays by Wright, Harold Bell