Even as I did so, something leapt out of the darkness, with a blustering bark of joy that woke the echoes, like thunder.

"You go to Halifax," said the Boy to Mac, blustering a trifle.

It was a wild Friday night in March, after days of blustering storms and drifting snow.

There had been many storms in September, and October was opening with a most blustering and wintry aspect.

I have often remarked your lordship with admiration, talking big and blustering loud, so as to frighten urchins who were about half your lordship's size, when you had no precise meaning in any thing you said.

A blustering manner will not reveal the one any more than a long face will reveal the other.

Hannah took her station in the little outside hall one blustering afternoon, watching through the side window till Cordelia climbed the porch steps loaded to her chin with wood; then Hannah braced her back against the outside door.

Whenever I walk into the Streets of London and Westminster, the Countenances of all the young Fellows that pass by me, make me wish my self in Sparta; I meet with such blustering Airs, big Looks, and bold Fronts, that to a superficial Observer would bespeak a Courage above those Grecians.

It was a dark, cool, and blustering night, such as the New Englanders are very apt to have on the second of April.

Sunday came, cold and raw and blustering.

Snow fell upon the previous glare surface, and, being attended with wind, rendered the day very blustering and boisterous.

Not the night which abroad is covered with lowering storm clouds; Not the roll of the thunderI hear its pealshall deter me; Not the pelt of the rain which without is beating in fury; Neither the blustering tempest; for all these things have I suffered During our sorrowful flight, and while the near foe was pursuing.

Take one of your rough ones, and I for one set him down as a mere bully, that hides his cowardice under blustering words.

Father's red-headed (though it's mostly gray now), and quick, and blustering, and awfully clever, and just adored by his students, and talks every minute, and apparently does all the deciding, and yet ...

The veteran and really meritorious Bignall, notwithstanding the ordinary sturdy blustering of his character, had served too long in indigence and comparative obscurity not to feel some of the longings of human nature for his hard-earned and protracted preferment.

DRAWCAN´SIR, a bragging, blustering bully, who took part in a battle, and killed every one on both sides, "sparing neither friend nor foe.

That as a cloud doth seem to dim the skies: Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast, For their sharp wounds and noyous injuries, Till the fierce northern wind, with blustering blast, Doth blow them quite away, and in the ocean cast.

" What does this blustering of Addison prove?

Britt, with all his clever blustering, could elicit no information from the crafty head-servants.

That tried old veteran, with his eye undimmed, his natural strength unabated, his resolute look, and calm determined manner, before which the blustering kidnapper, and the self-important oppressor have so often quailed!

This man turned out to be a villagera blustering, ignorant fellowwho had, however, saved a small sum by hauling, which had been increased by the receipt of a little legacy.

And how fares our young blustering man of war? Does he support his chains with patience yet? Trax.

DRAWCANSIR, a blustering, bullying boaster in Buckingham's play the "Rehearsal"

Your blustering here this afternoon can hardly conceal the fact of your failure,—your inability to keep a promise.

"He has been blustering at me all the time, and insists upon my cutting out Percy whether I can or not, and marrying Julia whether she chooses or not.