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Restiff

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Rest´iff
a.1.Restive.
n.1.A restive or stubborn horse.


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" Three kings protested to me, "that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again:" and they showed, with great strength of reason, "that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restiff temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
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