truculency

When he answered me his voice had lost all truculency.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

And this, allied with the natural stubbornness and truculency of his disposition, became a grievous burden to us.

THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE 1993

His tone had a note of truculency, but Erb did not seem to notice.

The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

"I nearly was," said Kerry, a faint spark of his old truculency lighting up the weary eyes.

Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

Lincoln was able to some extent to soften and to modify the needless truculency of the great War Secretary, and notwithstanding a good deal of troublesome friction, armies were organised and the troops were sent to the front.

Abraham Lincoln Putnam, George H 1909

It is rather strange to recall that throughout the relations of the two men, it was the trained and scholarly statesman of the East who had to be repressed for unwise truculency and that the repression was done under the direction of the comparatively inexperienced representative of the West, the man who had been dreaded by the conservative Republicans of New York as likely to introduce into the national policy “wild and woolly” notions.

Abraham Lincoln Putnam, George H 1909

The Frenchman's truculency seemed to vanish under Brett's cutting words.

The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective Louis Tracy 1895

Lincoln was able to some extent to soften and to modify the needless truculency of the great War Secretary, and notwithstanding a good deal of troublesome friction, armies were organised and the troops were sent to the front.

Abraham Lincoln George Haven Putnam 1887