It was said that seventy or a hundred years ago some louts had caught girls bathing in the stream and violated them.
Before the submerged weir was reached a kindly branch among the willows, stretching gnarled hands just above the flood level, gave the ready aid that no louts could offer.
As he passed the Barradine Arms, he saw three louts leaning against a dry bit of wall under the eaves of an outhouse.
Any louts who attempted tricks would have him, William Dale, to reckon with.
I don't want her to mix herself up with any of those louts that hang about the Cross Roads.
Addie, sacrificing himself for Mamma's sake, had gone out walking with his cousins, but had taken the first opportunity of giving the younglouts the slip.
He cared little what became of every one of these Nantese louts once his great object had been attained.
Are you all louts and oafs that not one of you can speak?
What do you think I heard one of the day loutscall it?
He'll see that thelouts are kept out of it, and only fellows who've got a record of something are let in.
We ought never to have lost ground as we did," he adds sullenly, "but who would have thought that these louts meant to fight?
The breach we can defend with stones of which there is a large store; we killed or wounded over a hundred of those louts at their last assault .
The two louts had probably never before encountered opponents who were skilled in the use of their fists, and they merely swung their fists round without meaning.
The consequence was, that in about seven minutes the louts were half blind, their noses were bleeding, and they were telling us they had had enough.
On the evening after the races, several cadets were in their tent and were laughing and talking, when some louts assembled outside, and commenced imitating the laughter and then calling, "Puss!
On the party of cadets rushing out (of which I was one) the louts took to their heels, but their clumsy efforts to run were useless, and we soon closed with them, when they turned and showed fight.
On looking out we saw that, instead of twenty louts who had at first appeared, there were now above a hundred, some of them being full-grown men.
I had plenty to do to guard his blows, and shortly sent him sprawling, when two other louts came on me at once.
The loutsbandied Joan's name about," the lad murmured.
The louts may do as they please, but they had best not let me catch them at the fighting.
The ship was almost empty--save of course for the street-corner louts who hung about just below, on the deck itself.
The crew still stands in a gang, exactly like a gang of louts at a street-corner.
But do you mean to say that these collier louts and factory girls are jealous of the things the artistes do, because they could never do them themselves?
Instead of being carried away by his grace and eloquence, the nasty louts of colliery boys and girls openly banged their feet and made deafening noises when he tried to speak.
She to be discussed according to the clod-hopping ideas of louts and scullery-maids.
Well, you see, those louts were bent on seeing me shoot wide, so I held straight just to spite them,' was his cool answer.
Before her eye, and her precise and haughty voice, which had no trace of the local accent, the young policeman was secretly abashed, and the louts fell back sheepishly.
He said this with a peculiar mysterious emphasis, and looked furtively at the louts for moral support in sarcasm.
These drilled louts will guard us, should this terrible Invasion land.
The clean youth of him in contrast to the mangy, surly louts who haunted Clinch's Dump, -- was that the appeal?
A score or more shambling forest louts in their dingy Saturday finery were gathered here playing cards, shooting craps, lolling around tables and tilting sloping glasses at one another.
I have often compared it to those whirligigs set up bylouts in our market-places on the No Rouz, which keep one dangling between heaven and earth.
Sometimes she sat among the louts in the cinema: rakish-looking, unattractive louts they were.
My opinion is," exclaimed Jehanne de la Tarme, "that it would be better for the louts of Paris, if this little magician were put to bed on a fagot than on a plank.
Therefore have at it: once more will I blow my horn To give my neighbour louts an hail-peal in a morn.
Pugsley, the great successful gambler, fines poor country louts for playing pitch and toss with halfpence.
Through the crowd, Jingling his chain and stumping with his staff, Up comes an usher, louts him low, "The Court Requires the allocution of the Fisc!
When he had finished, it appeared that a much graver danger than a Fenian raid threatened the Glen, for what should Tom Caldwell and all those Irish louts from the Flats be up to now but an Orangemen's raid!
Ay, and your country squires and your manufacturers contrive to give the army a body of consumptive louts fit for nothing else than to take the shilling--and not worth it,' said Dartrey.
The clean youth of him in contrast to the mangy, surly louts who haunted Clinch's Dump,--was that the appeal?
A score or more shambling forest louts in their dingy Saturday finery were gathered there playing cards, shooting craps, lolling around tables and tilting slopping glasses at one another.
What d'ye mean by bringing these louts up from the village to bull- bait me, eh?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "louts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
