Not blusterers and non-finishers of projects, but people who could be relied on to deliver the required outcome, under pressure, and when needed.

While that makes things all the more frightening for the story, it also sets up a chance at heroics for the very unplugged locals, who manage things far better than the technology-reliant military blusterers who come to town.

These posturers and blusterers wouldn't dare defy the will of Europe.

As a party, Labour needs to root out these ex-university self opinionated blusterers in favour of down to earth traditionalists who put the party and the grass root voter before themselves, something I believe none of the present candidates are capable of.

no end of blusterers, braggarts, windy, melodramatic, continually screaming in falsetto, a nuisance to These States, their own just as much as any; altogether the most impudent persons that have yet appeared in the history of lands, and with the most incredible successes, having pistol'd, bludgeoned, yelled and threatened America, the past twenty years into one long train of cowardly concessions, and still not through, but rather at the commencement.

Looking over these exams, which countless kids sat during the 50s, 60s and 70s, what they reveal is not more fodder for the usual blusterers about declining educational standards and illiteracy.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with Williams, but even if we were poles apart I'd listen to him because he is a different species from the self-interested blusterers currently giving terrific impressions of spoiled brats squabbling over who gets next go on the rocking horse.

Northerners complained about "southern blusterers" and southerners proclaimed themselves ready "to submit to all the hazards of war & risk the loss of every thing dear ...