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    1. as the ruffian dragged the unconscious child out into the


    2. The man whose voice accosts us is a common ruffian


    3. It is easy to imagine them sitting in booths alongside the busiest roads, protected by a big, strong ruffian, wringing their hands with joy each time someone came along


    4. Honest citizens begin to think; ‘Well no wonder they made roses illegal; everyone who has anything to do with them is an evil ruffian! Roses are obviously vile things!’


    5. The bandana ruffian cleared his throat and approached Sonja as if he didn’t notice Brian


    6. oops I mean…officers looking for the guy that did those fireworks on Gates," the ruffian said slouching back in the chair


    7. He looked at the ruffian hard as he told his lie


    8. "Nah, fuck that measly reward money," the ruffian said waving his hand as to dismiss the whole idea


    9. Lately, on account of the vast sums being spent on magical artefacts and the risk of thievery, the milliners had been compelled to join together on the one site and implement extra security, so that when Gaspar and Hubris arrived at the end of the lane in front of the workshops they found their way barred by a new iron gate, lit by the flames of a burning brazier and manned by a hired ruffian wielding a nasty cudgel


    10. One was a scarred, sinister-looking ruffian in leather breeks and ragged cloak; the other was Tarascus, king of Nemedia

    11. Conan had only a brief glimpse of it; and then the ruffian pulled a slouch hat over his eyes, drew his cloak about his shoulder, and hurried from the chamber


    12. 'Who is this madman?' growled a bearded ruffian


    13. He pulled himself together with a mighty effort, and presented a composed aspect to the ragged ruffian who burst into the chamber


    14. So don't be so lenient on this Cheddar-headed ruffian, because, despite his coarse lovableness, he is complicit in Fishmael's mission


    15. Harald had described his brother as an ill-mannered ruffian


    16. The ruffian got to his feet and strutted over facing Ritter


    17. Marshall was a ruffian, hired by who? The Earl? Did the Earl know Petra had staged the explosions?


    18. I picked out a big mean looking ruffian and headed straight at him for several reasons


    19. "It must have been a cunning and practised ruffian! The boldness of it!


    20. "Infected with the new doctrines," said a third, eyeing the direction through his glass in passing; "set himself in opposition to the last Marquis, abandoned the estates when he inherited them, and left them to the ruffian herd

    21. This reflection kept me perplexed and longing to know really and truly the whole life and wondrous deeds of our famous Spaniard, Don Quixote of La Mancha, light and mirror of Manchegan chivalry, and the first that in our age and in these so evil days devoted himself to the labour and exercise of the arms of knight-errantry, righting wrongs, succouring widows, and protecting damsels of that sort that used to ride about, whip in hand, on their palfreys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to mountain and valley to valley--for, if it were not for some ruffian, or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced them, there were in days of yore damsels that at the end of eighty years, in all which time they had never slept a day under a roof, went to their graves as much maids as the mothers that bore them


    22. ruffian, together with his instrument,] the keeper of the private mad-house, left the kingdom


    23. The whimpering of our deck-boy, a skinny, impressionable little scarecrow out of a training-ship, for whom, because of the tender immaturity of his nerves, this display of German Ocean frightfulness was too much (before the year was out he developed into a sufficiently cheeky young ruffian), his desolate whimpering, I say, heard between the gusts of that black, savage night, was much more present to my mind and indeed to my senses than the green overcoat and the white cap of the German passenger circling the deck indefatigably, attended by his two gyrating children


    24. Was it, then, in that guise that they appeared through the mists of the sea, distant, perplexed, and simple-minded? And what on earth is an "engaging ruffian"? He must be a creature of literary imagination, I thought, for the two words don't match in my personal experience


    25. In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a "vulgar young ruffian," and "worse than a brute," she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise


    26. Meanwhile, the infant ruffian continued sucking; and glowered at me defyingly, as he slavered into the jug


    27. "The ruffian kicked and trampled on him, and dashed his head repeatedly against the flags, holding me with one hand, meantime, to prevent me summoning Joseph


    28. "Ellen, I was ready to tear my hair off my head! I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me 'wisht,' and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation


    29. "Silence!" said the ruffian


    30. errants, who devote themselves to the pleasure of the first ruffian that

    31. Vampa gazed on him for a moment without betraying the slightest emotion; while, on the contrary, Teresa, shuddering in every limb, dared not approach the slain ruffian but by degrees, and threw a hesitating glance at the dead body over the shoulder of her lover


    32. After he had sneezed, the showman, still acting the ruffian,


    33. With woman steps she followed: the ruffian and his strolling mort


    34. That Mulligan is a contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian by all accounts


    35. —A rump and dozen, says the citizen, was what that old ruffian sir John


    36. History, would you be surprised to learn, proves up to the hilt Spain decayed when the inquisition hounded the jews out and England prospered when Cromwell, an uncommonly able ruffian who in other respects has much to answer for, imported them


    37. “Joby came here with another ruffian


    38. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian


    39. The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence


    40. Then he raised his revolver and covered the young ruffian, who was advancing upon him with his dangerous riding-crop swinging in his hand

    41. You could no longer bear the idea of this ruffian owning her


    42. Of the fate of Carruthers I have no record, but I am sure that his assault was not viewed very gravely by the Court, since Woodley had the reputation of being a most dangerous ruffian, and I think that a few months were sufficient to satisfy the demands of justice


    43. was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ


    44. I have said that he is the worst man in London, and I would ask you how could one compare the ruffian who in hot blood bludgeons his mate with this man, who methodically and at his leisure tortures the soul and wrings the nerves in order to add to his already swollen money-bags?"


    45. 'To my mind,' observed the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates cheerfully, 'the ONLY difficulty that presents itself in this otherwise very clear case is, how we can possibly make it sufficiently hot for the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian whom we see cowering in the dock before us


    46. This he very glibly swallowed, on the notion of my being one of those unhappy street-errants, who devote themselves to the pleasure of the first ruffian that will stoop to pick them up, and of course, that I would scarce bilk myself of the hire, by not returning make the most of the job


    47. Indeed, it was almost mesmeric, the effect which this giggling ruffian had produced upon the unfortunate linguist, for he could not speak of him save with trembling hands


    48. The prisoner of stupid and greedy banditti is always at the mercy of the first imbecile ruffian, who may blow out his brains in a fit of temper or for some prospect of an immediate big haul


    49. His sickly fear of that ruffian was the most rejoicing sight imaginable


    50. "Poor old chap! But have you any idea how that ruffian Sotillo obtained his information? He did not get hold of any of our Cargadores who helped with the truck, did he? But no, it is impossible! These were picked men we've had in our boats for these five years, and I paid them myself specially for the job, with instructions to keep out of the way for twenty-four hours at least

























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