ruffianly

• “Then he called our ruffianly scallywags of a crew on to the main deck, eyed them up and down, and ignoring our captain, asked me how many pairs of handcuffs were on board.”

  The Call Of The South 1908

• “He's better than any ruffianly bodyguard or holiday tutor.”

  Fictionaut: An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football

• “I felt detached, noticing details of my surroundings with a peculiar intensity: the small stained-glass inset over the bar, casting colored shadows over the ruffianly proprietor and his wares, the curve of the handle on a copper-bottomed dipper that hung on the wall next to me, a green-bellied fly struggling on the edges of a sticky puddle on the table.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “The news that David Cameron is picking the wings from Brown like a ruffianly boy with an insect at PMQs does not improve my mood as the odour of mendacity permeates everything while this toxicity infects the country ..”

  He Towers Above Us

• “He shut his face out for a moment, with the hand that again wandered over his forehead, and then it lowered on Redlaw, reckless, ruffianly, and callous.”

  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

• “There will be a siring of carts and mules on a certain part of the coast, and a most ruffianly lot of men, men you understand, men with wives and children and sweethearts, who from the very moment they start on a trip risk a bullet in the head at any moment, but who have a perfect conviction that I will never fail them.”

  The Arrow of Gold

• “She exchanged some words in a whisper with three or four ruffianly looking men, and said that she could let us have”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “A little bit further, pushed out of sight of the ruffianly soldier in suit and tie, a few protesters too few, who were still saving the opposition honor in this France visit, which was as much propaganda as business, with a strong oil smell.”

  Chavez in Paris: an American in Paris it is not*

• “August 27th, 2006 at 1: 24 am PDT preempt microprogram alderman ruffianly: barbaric?”

  BlogBeat Rocking The Blog Stat Beats!

• “Except for the loss of time it made no difference to me, but when the kuruma did come up the runners were three such ruffianly-looking men, and were dressed so wildly in bark cloth, that, in sending Ito on twelve miles to secure relays, I sent my money along with him.”

  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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