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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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Tammy Ruggles is a freelance writer based in Kentucky.
Tammy Ruggles 1996
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Seth Gordon: Anyone choosing Ruggles is a jealous hater.
Gold stars and red pen Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Seth Gordon: Anyone choosing Ruggles is a jealous hater.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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This editorial by Mr. Ruggles is credited with originating the right-to-work principle in labor relations.
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Coker said he will call Ruggles today to wish her well.
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"Ruggles," he answered, looking as if he did not love me certainly,
Hurricane Hurry William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The action turns around the banker Augustus Melmotte and some dodgy stock-price manipulation, the society dame-turned-trashy novelist Lady Carbury, the wide-eyed farm girl Ruby Ruggles, the upright young engineer Paul Montague, and a host of other characters who, over the course of more than 800 pages, fight and scheme and fall in love.
The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012
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I stood at Ruggles 'battery (62 guns) and crossed the field to the Union forces line in the Sunken Road and Hornet's Nest and reflected on what it was like there for two days in 1862 when the area had 24,000 casualties.
Several of the old timers have not posted for a while. Wonder what's going on with those guys. 2009
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I stood at Ruggles 'battery (62 guns) and crossed the field to the Union forces line in the Sunken Road and Hornet's Nest and reflected on what it was like there for two days in 1862 when the area had 24,000 casualties.
Several of the old timers have not posted for a while. Wonder what's going on with those guys. 2009
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In this Hobert Henley-directed adaption, Hammett's story becomes an action-comedy starring sultry torch singer Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, and newcomer Jimmy Durante.
Thomas Gladysz: Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival Thomas Gladysz 2012
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