Citations:gusty

English citations of gusty

1. Characterized by or occurring in sudden outbursts
   • 2012, Cat Schield, The Rogue's Fortune, page 85:

     With a gusty sigh he dropped a kiss on her head and pushed her to arm's length.

   • 2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass:

     'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.

   • 2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion:

     The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.

2. With gusto
   • 1917, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 18, page 486:

     His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.

   • 2004, John Cottle, The Blessings of Hard-used Angels, page 152:

     I give her a gusty wink.

   • 2007, Prakash Chandra Mehta, Sonu Mehta, Cultural Heritage of Indian Tribes, page 31:

     The prime aim of the Bondo dormitory is selection of marriage partners and they are free to have sexual experiences, but not, of course, intercourse, which the boys call with a gusty smile "breast play".

   • 2009, Deni Bash Hoffman, All's Fair in Love and Mystery, page 48:

     She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.

   • 2012, Irene Hope-Hedrick, 'Twill Be All Right Come Mornin', Luv, page 32:

     And so did his lordship as he stood and praised her performance, his beard scratching a gusty kiss on her cheek while handing her the winners' trophy in our behalf.

3. Bombastic, verbose
   • 1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53:

     “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.

   • 1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21:

     From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.

   • 2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355:

     Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.

   • 2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic:

     Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.

Ambiguous

• 1940, Come Back to Erin, page 25:

  She gave a gusty smile of admiration, which Josephine weighed for a second, accepted tentatively with an answering smile, and then quenched like a cigarette stub.

1. • 2003, Lauren Henderson, My Lurid Past, page 48:

     A gusty sigh preceded the inevitable bad news. “You know that gig I was up for?” he asked rhetorically. “I didn't get it.”

   • 2012, Cat Schield, The Rogue's Fortune, page 85:

     With a gusty sigh he dropped a kiss on her head and pushed her to arm's length.