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  • noun Plural form of blusterer.

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  • The DYDA DISPATCHES: Cheryl will keep an "open door" for blusterers from the Bay skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Cheryl will keep an "open door" for blusterers from the Bay 2009

  • Cheryl will keep an "open door" for blusterers from the Bay

    Cheryl will keep an "open door" for blusterers from the Bay 2009

  • Cheryl will keep an "open door" for blusterers from the Bay

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Everyone who has observed and read widely about psychology knows that most people are afraid inside; yes even the strong blusterers, perhaps even more than the apparent quiet cowards.

    Frightened and Demoralized - by Design? 2008

  • They are accustomed to being the stinging gadflies of tough foreign policy, but in practice, they've become blusterers and bluffers who who hope for the best and blunder after it.

    Archive 2008-01-13 Stephen Daugherty 2008

  • I mean, you can say certain kinds of leaders are blusterers, or they're employing rhetoric for domestic political purposes, and some of them mean it very much in earnest.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2008 2008

  • Open the street door, Judy; put these blusterers out!

    Bleak House 2007

  • I say suspect them, for they are commonly impostors; but do not be sure that they are always so; for I have sometimes known saints really religious, blusterers really brave, reformers of manners really honest, and prudes really chaste.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • He began to reassure Aouda, telling her that blusterers were never to be feared, and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel, a request which the detective could not refuse.

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • He was as much in earnest as those who fought on account of elemental love, and far more so than any of the blusterers who talked big and looked small.

    Tropic Days 2003

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