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Example sentences for "hooligan"

  • When Hooligan and Dooligan Ran for Mayor.

  • The union also made no little effort to arouse the hooligan part of the population against the Jews and against the intelligentsia.

  • They drank, and sang hooligan songs, then paid their bill and went out.

  • TIME Mrs. Hooligan was suffering from the common complaint of having more to do than there was time to do it in.

  • If Mrs. Hooligan is alone there, when I come back I'll have Miss Brady; then we can get a policeman or two and have them lie in wait for Pete and Whipple when they come.

  • Hooligan and his wife, fearing to be called to account for their rascality, had fled, and left the mansion to take care of itself.

  • He's care-taker during the summer for a house in River Forest, Hooligan is, and he took the girl there.

  • The family's away for the summer, and Hooligan is able to do about as he pleases there.

  • Hooligan told her it wouldn't be necessary for her to say anything, as she could get back to Archer Avenue in the afternoon.

  • Mrs. Hooligan was with me all the time, and there never was a moment when she wasn't watching.

  • Pete and Whipple had taken Mrs. Hooligan and me to La Grange on the night of the day I was captured.

  • Yes, they've gone to the house where Hooligan is acting as caretaker.

  • The La Grange officers are watching the Hooligan house in that town, and when the caretaker shows up there he will be captured.

  • Hooligan took me to that house, from which you just rescued me, and there I was made a captive by Pete and Whipple, and turned over to the care of Mrs. Hooligan.

  • I remembered the instructions, and I tore the paper into little bits, when Mrs. Hooligan wasn't looking, and threw the pieces down a register into one of the furnace pipes.

  • Mrs. Hooligan has charge of Helen, and Whipple and Pete are there with her.

  • You want to take the Hawk to the place in La Grange where Hooligan and his wife live?

  • Mrs. Hooligan had been keeping me in a room on the top floor.

  • Hooligan met Helen on the street, and told her that her brother, Hector Brady, Jr.

  • The whistle of a hooligan captain sounded, and scores of young roughs poured out of the houses to obey the summons.

  • They found that the hooligan riot-provoking business was very simply dealt with, and so they are trying this.

  • They've been rousing the hooligan element.

  • These Hooligan Diplomats would as soon shoot you as look at you," Mannteufel warned.

  • Kicked me off the Hooligan Diplomats," I said glumly.

  • That was something unusual; even in the Hooligan Diplomats, we leaned over backward in wearing Terran costume to distinguish ourselves from the people among whom we worked.

  • The next witness was a z'Srauff, and in the New Texan garb he was wearing, he was something to open my eyes, even after years on the Hooligan Diplomats.

  • Casimir was once more in possession of his motor, and had generously tipped his understudy: thereupon the hooligan had made off as fast as his legs could carry him.

  • As a precaution, the young hooligan asked: "The bloke snores?

  • The hardiest hooligan would shrink from introducing rough-house proceedings into a room graced by the combined presence of Long Otto and himself.

  • The hooligan stirred, shook himself, sat up, and began to mutter something in a foggy voice.

  • The bulk of the gangs of New York are of the hooligan class, and are rarely met with outside their natural boundaries.

  • It was generally understood that he had cut his old ways and had turned pious, an evident reference to the hooligan club.

  • Had it not been for the hooligan club, these efforts to mislead would not have been very successful, I fancy.

  • There is no doubt, Wigan, that there was every reason to look for an amateur in this business, and in spite of the hooligan club, you seem to have been half conscious of this fact.

  • Had you not heard at the same time of this hooligan club, you would probably have made further inquiries about the curate.

  • I wanted to see Zena Quarles, and there was nothing more to be done in the chalice case until I had visited the hooligan club.

  • His old companions have seen nothing of him; he is supposed to have turned good, and I find he has been a member of that hooligan club for over a year with an irreproachable record during that time.

  • I have sung once or twice at his hooligan club entertainments.

  • I glory in it, and I told O'Hooligan as much, and I drank a glass of toddy to the memory of William III.

  • There was a Captain O'Hooligan and I used to meet; we were in the same detachment.

  • My hair is sandy, that of O'Hooligan is black, or nearly so; but there was no knowing what chemical action the alcohol might have on the hair in altering its colour.

  • Whether O'Hooligan gave a smack to the liquor I cannot say, but I can answer for my legs, they would impart a grateful flavour of whisky.

  • The arming of the criminal and hooligan classes by this guardian of public safety, which had at first been carried on quietly, was now being done openly and shamelessly, and had reached great proportions.

  • Along the southern slope of Hooligan Hill several sets of leasers were mining ore so rich that guards were maintained through the night to prevent loss from theft.

  • After a thorough inspection of the mine showings throughout the district, he hit upon the Hooligan Hill section of the Rawhide Coalition property as a likely-looking spot to develop pay ore.

  • At the Alexander lease on Hooligan Hill the miners were crushing the richer quartz from their shaft and washing out gold to the value of $20 a pan.

  • When he applied for a lease on that section of the Coalition property embracing a good part of Hooligan Hill it was granted to him without parley.

  • For three days we kept the yarn alive and the wires burdened with details of the siege and unsuccessful storming of Camp Miller, Hooligan Hill, Nevada.

  • There Hooligan Hill slanted upward at an angle of less than twenty degrees from vertical.

  • Soon hundreds of people gathered at points of vantage along the crest of Hooligan Hill and surrounding uplifts.

  • They were of the type which he held in especial aversion, the Rural Hooligan type, and one at least of the two had evidently been present at a recent circulation of the festive bowl.

  • In the first place, the bicycle which Hooligan number one was playing with was a lady's bicycle, and a small one at that.

  • Well," said he when the narrative was concluded, "if those hooligan boys are going to take to catapults they'll make things lively all round.

  • It is a wise precaution to give all hooligan gangs a very wide berth at this time of night.

  • Its good qualities are that it is cheap; it is soon over, but irksome whilst it lasts; and it is said to appeal to the homeopathic instincts of the hooligan class who recognise the justice of meeting violence by violence.

  • I am told by some quite sane and scientific thinkers that for men, women and children of the hooligan class who have a mania for violence and destruction it is probably the most appropriate form of punishment.

  • If a Hooligan knocked you down and began stamping on you, I can imagine you saying, 'Stop just a moment to tell me why you are doing this.

  • But the Hooligan business you describe is beyond me, I am afraid.

  • I walked out and down to Hooligan Alley, and then on the other side of the street.

  • The consul went back to Hooligan Alley with me.

  • This official attitude was interpreted by the hooligan element and interested schemers in the only possible way, viz.

  • Among the bullies and drabs that frequented the place, Josephine had appeared to him seductive, charming, almost virginal, and the popular hooligan had promptly chosen her from her sisters of the underworld.

  • The hooligan stopped at the "Comrades' Tryst," in front of which Mother Toulouche had set out a table with a large basket of winkles.

  • For the subtle power of Loupart, that well-loved hooligan of the purlieus of Paris, lay in his remaining constantly a source of fear, always a suspect without ever being caught with the goods.

  • Ye surprise me by your stupidity, as Jim Hooligan said whin his taycher remarked he could not see what plisure a lad found in fighting two ither lads.

  • The hooligan may or may not have any respect at all for the Lord Chief Justice: that is a matter which we may contentedly leave as a solemn psychological mystery.

  • But if the hooligan has any respect at all for the Lord Chief Justice, that respect is certainly extended to the Lord Chief Justice entirely because he does not put his tongue out.

  • It is not true that if a small hooligan puts his tongue out at the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Justice immediately realises that his only chance of maintaining his position is to put his tongue out at the little hooligan.


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