| 1. | His face was pugnacious but pleasant. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the trues. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement he wanted to have the battle out. - from The Republic by Plato |