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  • Ef anybody likes to be fussy an 'ructious' n little things, why, there's nuthin 'to hender him from hevin' his own way.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • After the ructious reception of Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz (Heroes 'Square) at the Vienna Burg-theater in November 1988, just three months before the author's death, President Kurt Waldheim denounced the play, in which he is called a liar, as a' crude insult to the Austrian people. '

    The Comedian Of Horror Craft, Robert 1990

  • I cain't nohow understan 'him but s'long as he don' get ructious I'se gwine drive dat hay-cart to de Norf

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • Was her feeling of rebellion but the kicking of ructious heels against the closed door of fate?

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • "Since th 'Czar iv Rooshia inthrajooced his no-fight risolution, they'se been no chanst that they wudden't be ructious."

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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