Looking up at him, Ransom recognized the stocky shoulders and pugnacious face.

He thrust his pugnacious face forward from his collar until it was almost visible as though daring somebody to dispute him.

The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.

This pugnacious, blond face was Carl's, slimmed down and tautened.

He was perfectly proportioned, square with a pugnacious face.

Harry was about to blurt out the reply, when he sensed something in the man's pugnacious red face.

His hair was a florid stubble above a florid pugnacious face.

His pugnacious face was not so red as usual.

Wilfred finished, a rare smile on his pugnacious young face as he shoved back his own chair.

Yet cunning was the last thing he would ever have found in that bold, pugnacious face.