Tommy wrangled with his editor, disputed truculently with the good-tempered Luli, assumed a mien of impertinent defiance towards his more urgent creditors, and snapped at Betty, who snapped back, and then they would stammer rude and unpleasant comments on each other for a minute or two-it took them longer to quarrel than it takes people who can fling their remarks unhaltingly straight from the lips-until one or other was ashamed and said: 'D-dry up.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
This time the voice from the bench rasped truculently, forgetting its suavity.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
"We gotta get it out of the road," Flynn said, walking truculently up to the leech.
"The Leech"
Phillips Barbee