They behaved in the most high-handed, brutal and truculent manner.

But, if his truculent character was thus early displayed, his abilities were no less conspicuous; and, though still in his teens, he became lecturer on the Humanities at Tournai, whence, after but a short stay, he returned to Paris, to take his degree of doctor of canon law, and become regent of the college of Navarre.

The most savage and truculent of the tribes are those who live in the forest regions; the most advanced in culture, the dwellers in the plains.

There is not a pass of any great importance, nor a river of any great difficulty, to be encountered from end to end, but the route is flanked on the north between Kandahar and Girishk by the Zamindawar hills, containing the most truculent and fanatical clans of all the Southern Afghan tribes.

Zobair, who complained in a somewhat truculent letter that Moawiya's slaves had been guilty of trespassing.