belligerent
Definition: Warlike; given to waging war
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The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews - By Cornelius Mathews
...He therefore formed no very pleasant or playful belligerent, and, accordingly, began to drub his little antagonist horribly at arm 's-length ....
Kindred of the Dust - By Peter Bernard Kyne, Dean Cornwell, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
...That is to say, when his belligerent disposition led him into battle, which it frequently did, Mr. OTyeary 's instinct was to win, quickly and decisively, and without consideration of the niceties of combat, for a primitive person was Dirty Dan ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...At last, after several hours, when sundry summer-houses had been pulled down, and some area-railings had been torn up, to arm the more belligerent spirits, a rumor got about that the Guards were coming ....
The Call of the Wild - By Jack London, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Philip R. Goodwin, Charles Livingston Bull, Charles Edward Hooper
...But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his heels to face him, mane bristling, ears laid back, lips writhing and snarling, jaws clipping together as fast as he could snap, and eyes diabolically gleaming--the incarnation of belligerent fear ....
White Fang - By Jack London
...He aroused in them their instinctive fear of the Wild, and they greeted him always with snarl and growl and belligerent hatred ....
Tarzan of the Apes - By Edgar Rice Burroughs, A.C. McClurg & Company, W.F. Hall Printing Company
...Look here, Skinny Philander, " he said, in belligerent tones, " if you are lookin ' for a scrap, peel off your coat and come on down on the ground, and I 'll punch your head just as I did sixty years ago in the alley back of Porky Evans ' barn . " "...
Babbitt - By Sinclair Lewis, Jean Hersholt Collection of Sinclair Lewis (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
...He became belligerent ....
The Road - By Jack London
...When a fleeing belligerent escaped into a crevice between the bricks, we promptly walled him in with a daub of the chewed bread ....
The Story of a Bad Boy - By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
...Just at this crisis a dozen or so of the Templars entered the gate, and, seeing at a glance the belligerent status of Conway and myself, dropped bat and ball, and rushed to the spot where we stood . "...
Penrod - By Booth Tarkington, Gordon Grant, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press
...Nearing home, however, his belligerent spirit was...
Sketches by Boz - By Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Frederick Barnard
...houses had been pulled down, and some area railings had been torn up, to arm the more belligerent spirits, a rumor got about that the Guards were coming ....
A Sheaf - By John Galsworthy
...How often we use those words I They are current in all the belligerent countries, and in all they are unreally used, as yet ....
Lady Baltimore - By Owen Wister
...Not only with the profile of her short, belligerent nose, but with the chilly way in which she made her pencil move over the ledger, she told me plainly that my self-respect had failed to meet her tests ....
The World Set Free - By Herbert George Wells
...For a time the whole world had been shocked into frankness; nearly all the clever people who had hitherto sustained the ancient belligerent separations had now been brought to realize the need for simplicity of attitude and openness of mind; and in this atmosphere of moral renascence there was little attempt to get negotiable advantages out of resistance to the new order ....
Marsena - By Harold Frederic
...she called out in shrill, belligerent tones; and this demand she repeated, after an interval of silence, when an irresolute knocking was heard on the door ....