...He was a double-engined, high-speed pacificist,because he was the kind of cantankerous fellow who must always be in aminority...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Blenkiron’s instructions were that we two should live humbly and keep oureyes and ears open, for we were outside suspicion—the cantankerous lameBoer and his loutish servant from Arosa...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Professor Kitchen Parker writes that the specimen now inthe Zoological Gardens is a most cantankerous beast...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The worm of the sepulchre is an invention of cantankerous minds, incapable of seeing things as they are...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...But the steeplechase-rider has to be out and about again, “riding exercise” every morning, and “schooling” all sorts of cantankerous brutes over the fences...
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 「Three Elephant Power」
...As for me, I'd be only toothankful never to hear his cantankerous old pipe again...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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