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Ella Taylor in the LA Weekly: "Truculent, effortlessly funny and congenitally mutinous, Maines is a bull in a china shop with the voice of an angel, and you cant help but cheer her fuck-you to a kow-towing music industry, and to all the bullies who picketed her concerts, wanting her dead."
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Of course, total domination of congress costs money so while he was preaching the sweet gospel of the little baby Jesus Armed and Truculent he was also collecting money from every crook and lobbyist in DC.
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The monitors Erebus and Terror, with the destroyers Termagant, Truculent and Manly, were stationed at a position suitable for the long range bombardment of Zeebrugge in co-operation with the attack.
The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy
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To attend monitors -- Termagant, Truculent, and Manly.
The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy
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Truculent-looking men accompanied us to our several boarding-houses, paid our debts for us, finally bringing us by boat to a ship lying out in the bay.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Truculent yet celebratory to the extent of even suggesting Christmas, it withstands its rather melodramatic title, "Wounded Hero Returns to the City for Paul Thek," while adding to the show's lively pictorial back-and-forth.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011
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When a Truculent _Nero_, a _Devil_ of a Man, was turned in upon the
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Truculent Capello refuses to accept questions about 4-4-2.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Truculent perished after their boat collided with a Dutch freighter on the Thames, and
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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