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Moreover, I caught Spiro, the more truculent-looking of the pair, scowling at me more than once when he did not know I had my eye on him.
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Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard; a decidedly truculent-looking figure.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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There seemed, indeed, scant reason for any passenger-train at all, for, besides our own party, there were only two or three Zaptiehs, truculent-looking fellows, a couple of English merchants and some rayahs.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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Peruvian loungers, the "lions" of Lima -- a long-haired, becloaked, truculent-looking set of fellows, whose proper place would seem to be among operatic banditti.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various
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The door of the bedroom burst open and a large, truculent-looking man said.
The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940
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A truculent-looking warrior in one of those ear-guards which are tied on by strings underneath the chin, and which add fifty per cent to the ferocity of a forward's appearance, broke away with the ball at his feet, and swept down the field with the rest of the pack at his heels.
The Gold Bat 1928
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A truculent-looking warrior in one of those ear-guards which are tied on by strings underneath the chin, and which add fifty per cent to the ferocity of a forward's appearance, broke away with the ball at his feet, and swept down the field with the rest of the pack at his heels.
The Gold Bat 1928
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A truculent-looking warrior in one of those ear-guards which are tied on by strings underneath the chin, and which add fifty per cent to the ferocity of a forward's appearance, broke away with the ball at his feet, and swept down the field with the rest of the pack at his heels.
The Gold Bat 1928
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He was a little, truculent-looking man, and his face at present was red with a flush that sat unnaturally on a normally lead-colored face.
Something New 1928
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A very truculent-looking fellow, he whispered to Mannering; but, as Dogberry says, Ill go cunningly to work with him.
Chapter LVI 1917
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