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And it is a curious reminiscence, but a true one, that both these great actors and their performances were tabood by polite society in New York and Boston at the timeprobably as being too robustuous.
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And it is a curious reminiscence, but a true one, that both these great actors and their performances were taboo'd by "polite society" in New York and Boston at the time -- probably as being too robustuous.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Especially a tall robustuous fellow, with a terrible javelin in his hand, much notched and splintered, as if it had dealt many a thrust.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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He edited on the side of caution: though assuring Clemens that “I have a pretty ‘robustuous taste,’ ”22 he understood that Mark Twain’s unprecedented use of vernacular pushed against the limits of public tolerance.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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He edited on the side of caution: though assuring Clemens that “I have a pretty ‘robustuous taste,’ ”22 he understood that Mark Twain’s unprecedented use of vernacular pushed against the limits of public tolerance.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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"polite society" in New York and Boston at the time -- probably as being too robustuous.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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