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In the last battle between Arthur and Mordred 'boist'rous bangs with thumping thwacks fall thick', while the younger leader rages over the field 'all fury-like, frounc'd up with frantic frets'.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Then, feeling what small things are boist'rous there,
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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Dashed, wrecked, and buried in the boist'rous tide. '
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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That takes the boist'rous weather and feels it kind:
Helen Redeemed and Other Poems Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Then, feeling what small things are boist'rous there,
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844
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Before the boist'rous winds the storm drives fast,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Then, feeling what small things are boist'rous there,
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804
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With evening shades the suitors boist'rous roar, 460
The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765
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While Reason struggles to controul The boist'rous inmates of the soul,
Six engravings by H. Thielcke, after the designs of ... the princess Elizabeth [of Hesse Homburg ... H. Thielcke , Elizabeth 1813
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But the waves were not as boist'rous as they were the day before. "
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