1 Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes.
2 She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
3 Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
4 With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 5 His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.