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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
boisterous .
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Examples
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Maybe they were still recovering from the boystrous welcoming ceremony the night before.
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But your enemies finde themselves much deceived, because they can make no use of your peoples Arrowes, in regard that the nockes are too narrow to receive their boystrous strings.
The Decameron 2004
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Agaynst the boystrous winter stormes, and sundrie such like trade.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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Is grown too boystrous for his mouth: he sighs too.
The False One Francis Beaumont 1600
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This boystrous storme so seuered vs from one another, that one shippe knewe not what was become of another.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And euery day they fared worse and worse: for after they had eaten vp their shooes and leather ierkins, there arose so boystrous a winde and so contrary to their course, that in the turning of a hande, the waues filled their vessel halfe full of water and brused it vpon the one side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Through boystrous Seas thy brittle frame of Mau It safely is in Christ's sweet armes infold,
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John Baker I here hath wrot to the honnored depoti how as I was drouck & like to be cild & both falc, upon okachon I delt with Wannerton for intrushon & finddmg them resolutli bent to rout all gud a mong us & advanc there superstischous ways & by boystrous words indeferd to fritten men to accomplish his end. & he abusing me to my face, dru upon him with intent to corb his insolent & dastardli sperrite ....
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Generall being on land in Beares sound could not come to his shippe, but was compelled to goe aboord the Gabriel where he continued all the way homeward: for the boystrous blasts continued so extreamely and so long a time, that they sent vs homewarde (which was Gods fauour towardes vs) will we, nill we, in such haste as not any one of vs were able to keepe in company with other, but were separated.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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427: Which so rouz'd vp with boystrous vntun'd drummes,
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