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  • "Toughs," a fashionable hotel with a verandah and five o'clock tea-tables for the use of the select.

    From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

  • The Dudes and the "Toughs" parted company; and the former, with

    Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888

  • The Dudes were getting hot over the taunts of the "Toughs," as some one had misnamed their neighbors; and one night when there was more or less interchange of pointed chaff in lieu of fight with a common foe, there was heard a shrill voice from the flank of the rifle pit nearest the Westerners, and what it said was repeated in wonderment over the brigade before the Dudes were another day older.

    Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888

  • [Illustration: The Way to present the Manufacture of "Toughs"]

    The Making of an American 1881

  • Grajski biki/Tvrđava siledžija/Stronghold of Toughs, Yugoslav/Slovenian film

    Birthday post khaloymes 2008

  • Toughs armed with long knives and iron bars rampaged through the neighborhood for four days, attacking Indians at random.

    Murder In Malaysia 2007

  • “Except they shoot us, we Old Toughs refuse to die.”

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Enter stage right, an old sweat of the Old Toughs.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • “Except they shoot us, we Old Toughs refuse to die.”

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Enter stage right, an old sweat of the Old Toughs.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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