One made a pretext to quarrel with me, and, gripping me round the body, called to his companions to go and get some stones to pound me on the head with, this being the approved manner of the young roughs of New York.
It is not even fashionable; for theroughs and clowns are now by common consent of Tories and Liberals alike transformed into capable citizens.
As for the particular bit of sycophancy which educated men wickedly dangle before roughs and clowns, we should like to be sure that the proposition is correctly reported.
The worst of it is that, if Sir Henry Maine is right, we have no more to hope from other classes than from roughs and clowns.
Inadequate police protection allowed roughs to attack them and all but break up the beautiful pageant.
Like all crowds, this crowd had its share of hoodlums and roughs who tried to interfere with the women's order of the day.
The roughs had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose.
I had no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off both my hat and the bird.
He threw up his job as bartender and recruited a motley company of young roughs whom he induced to practise the march step during the afternoons.
This casual announcement was intended to draw away attention from the Fifth Avenue house, and to notify the roughs that it would be useless to lay any plans.
And Raccoon Roughs they continued through all the war, Gordon's fine-spun name being never heard of again.
An answer came at length from Governor Moore, of Alabama, who consented to incorporate the Raccoon Roughs and their captain in one of the new regiments he was organizing.
You must not take the vaporings and bombast of the Paris Bourgeois or the ranting of Blanqui and the Belleville roughs as the voice of France.
I should think no more of shooting one of these roughs than of killing a tiger--indeed, I regard the tiger as the more honest beast of the two.
The young roughs of the neighborhood, which was then of a rather lawless type, used to try to destroy the property of the companies.
The great terrorists, of whom scarcely one was a Marseillaise, the soldiers and roughs as they called themselves, were almost the only persons encountered.
The only shop that seemed to be thriving was a public-house, outside which a few roughs were tossing for pence.
Open-air work was at that time dangerous, but she and a few others attempted it: they were opposed by roughs and pelted with mud.
Rowdyism is the state of being of New York roughsand loafers.
Hard Punchers" are caps worn by London roughs and formerly by men in training.
And I saw some young roughs pointing at Uncle and laughing and saying, "Look at the old guy with the red handkerchief.
But that he had lent it to Mr Gabriel Pendle to protect himself from roughs when that young gentleman was a curate in Whitechapel, London.
When he was in Whitechapel I knew that he went among a lot of roughs and thieves, so I insisted that he should carry this pistol for his protection.
Not long after, the vigilance committee hanged four men, and roughs and law-breakers left town for the mines.
In '55 there were many bank failures, and business troubles of all kinds made the people restless, and roughs and murderers carried a strong hand.
What reason had you for saying that "seventeen citizens shot in cold blood by the roughs of Philadelphia?
There were undoubtedly roughs among their number, who gave an evil character to the regiment; but there are many good men among them, who simply obeyed orders; even when they fired their pieces they obeyed orders.
They looked to me like roughs of the lowest description.
About three or four o'clock in the morning I was awakened by a great deal of noise and hallowing, and saw a great many roughs passing my place, and heard wagons passing.
There was a telegram there from the burgess of Elizabeth, stating that a party of roughs or rioters were en route to the city by steamer, and this force went down there to meet them when they would arrive.
It seems that a party of roughs from Cumberland had taken a train, and taken possession of it, and the mayor was notified, and he sent down a detail of police, and we were sent down to support the police.
This crowd in the streets on Monday, did it seem to be just a promiscuous crowd everywhere on the streets, or was there an organization of men--roughs about?
On Monday, the 23d, the mob gathered in large force about the railroad premises, and there being a larger number of roughs and tramps, became more turbulent and interfered with the running of the trains.
There was persons coming, as I understood, from a distance here, roughs and rowdies, &c.
They spoke of it as the attack having been made by--well, tramps and roughs they called them.
After the railroad employes agreed with you that they would protect the railroad property, did they permit the crowd of roughs to remain with them?
There are a certain number of riverside roughs who make quite an income, during the summer, by slouching about the banks and blackmailing weak-minded noodles in this way.
Ugly roughs and excited boys keep pressing in, and several have seen me with the General.
I was speaking of them purely as a spectacle; individually I have no doubt one would be safer among the English roughs and betting men than among these placid looking natives.
The townspeople were of two classes: there were the budmashes or roughs of the place, who uttered brutal and ferocious jokes as to the probable fate of the white women.
Two of the roughs had entered, but the guard persuaded the other two that they must bestow themselves elsewhere.
The roughs followed, like chief mourners, Merton thought, at the head of the attendant crowd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
