That was how it began. How it would have ended is not known -- probably there would have been only one John -- if it had not been for the almost miraculous appear- ance at this moment of the third John. For just then the two belligerents found them- selves prostrate, their pistols only half-cocked, and between them stood a man all gnarled and squat, like one of those wind-torn oaks which grow on the arid heights. He was no older than the others, but the lines in his face were deep, and his large mouth twitched as he said: --英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Next, Lord Cromer, at Port Said, stretched out the arm of international law, and laid it upon the Spanish fleet. Belligerents may legally take coal enough at neutral ports to reach their nearest "home port." That Spanish fleet was on its way from Spain to Manila through the Suez Canal. It could have reached there, had Lord Cromer allowed it coal enough to make the nearest home port ahead of it--Manila. But there was a home port behind it, still nearer, namely, Barcelona. He let it take coal enough to get back to Barcelona. Thus, England again stepped in.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
" Yes, 'Marco,'" cried Nora, belligerently. " 'Marco,' Do you object to the name? What's the matter with you, anyhow?"英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Adamu only hit him once, and he broke the man's arm. You remember, Adamu?"
The big Tahitian smiled and nodded, his black eyes, soft and deer- like, seeming to give the lie to so belligerent a nature. "We start in an hour in the whale-boat for Guvutu, big brother," Joan said to him. "Tell your brothers, all of them, so that they can get ready. We catch the Upolu for Sydney. You will all come along, and sail back to the Solomons in the new schooner. Take your extra shirts and dungarees along. Plenty cold weather down there.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
He has even been known to drive off woodpeckers and bluebirds from the hollows in the trees that he, like them, chooses for a nest, and appropriate the results of their labor for his scarcely less belligerent mate. With a slight but important and indispensable addition, the stolen nest is ready to receive her four cream-colored eggs, that look as if a pen dipped in purple ink had been scratched over them.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
LE BRET: These fops, would-be belligerent, Will, if you heed them only, turn your head!. Ask people of good sense if you would know The effect of your fine insolence--英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
If your kids are belligerent and ungrateful, it's probably 'cause you made 'em that way.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I'd handcuffed him when I found him In the bar because he was belligerent, as you see in the video.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Yes, you were pigheaded, belligerent, and arrogant to the extreme... but you're, uh... you're also a hell of a lawyer.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》