Pugnacious

Usage examples of belligerent.

By the beginning of 1915 they had accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence from the belligerent countries to convince them that great masses of people in these countries were as amazed and as anxious to end the widening bloodshed and brutalization as the neutral onlookers.

One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully-- one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.

As this detention was occasioned by an obvious misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should commit no belligerent act not founded in strict right as sanctioned by public law, I recommend that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention.

My father--our government--were painted as overbearing and belligerent.

It appeared this belligerent duck man, John Scroggins, had sufficient reason to use his ready shotgun upon any trespassers.

Admitting the conduct of the British and French Governments in recognizing the rebels as belligerents to be as unfriendly and as unrequired by the obligations of public law as it is generally held to be among us, that would not make it right or wise for our Government to depart from the tone of moderation.

Big, bullheaded, and ruddy, Abernethy arrived in a belligerent mood, barging ahead of Lorn as Mercurius admitted them and then retired.

The burghers of the Transvaal and of the late Orange Free State were legitimate belligerents, and to be treated as such--a statement which does not, of course, extend to the Afrikander rebels who were their allies.

His jaw was square, his forehead narrow, giving him a belligerent, bulldoggish look.

For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.

Lancelot scowled, Amhar and Loholt tried to look belligerent, while Dinas and Lavaine showed nothing but contempt on their hard faces.

Miss Dunstable, as soon as both belligerents had departed from the field of battle.

But before Fyle got halfway round the dusty circle, we saw a handful of belligerent men in Den Thasnet colours accost him.

Chance had done was beginning to wear off, and those onlookers who still remained were starting to chuckle at the situation the onetime belligerent gunslick now found himself in.

Led by a particularly belligerent captain, the Keralan seamen dug out their own weapons and launched a mutiny.