| 1. | Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel styl. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | When now the North his boisterous rage has spent. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Then, feeling what small things are boisterous there. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | The latter part of this speech, was hailed by a boisterous shout from all the hopeful pupils of the merry old gentleman. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Maylie beckoned him much surprised at the mixture of sadness and boisterous spirits, which his whole behaviour displayed. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 9. | Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |