All ruffianism affronts me, and actions legitimate in others are crimes in me.
If men carry pistols, it is in their pockets; and the shoot-the lights outruffianism of the old frontier days rarely shows even a symptom of revival.
A story was current of a man having ridden through Truckee two evenings before with a chopped-up human body in a sack behind the saddle, and hosts of stories of ruffianism are located there, rightly or wrongly.
His fame for violence and ruffianism preceded him into Colorado, where his knowledge of and love of the mountains have earned him the sobriquet he now bears.
His life, without doubt, was deeply stained with crimes and vices, and his reputation for ruffianism was a deserved one.
The Missouri Democrat was what was known as the "Tom Ben ton" paper of Missouri, and was not ostensibly a Free-soil paper, yet it vehemently inveighed against the ruffianism with which free State men had been treated.
You may perhaps learn that it is neither just nor gentlemanly gratuitously to insult a man, because you have surmised that he will show some resentment at the ruffianism of a Kansas mob, with which you seem to sympathize.
The brutal ruffianism of the pro-slavery spirit has far enough disclosed its natural aptitudes to have become disgustingly odious in comparison with the positively better characteristics of the colored man.
The ruffianism of the South had been fully armed in advance of the full disclosure of the plot to secede.
Being as you are, i' the stock, a man of guile, And ruffianism but an added graft.
But for our brutality, our recklessness of life and property, the brazen ruffianism in our great cities, the hellish greed and robbery and plunder in high places, I should have to look a long time to find so plausible an excuse.
Ruffianism with us is no doubt much more brazen and pronounced, not merely because the law is lax, but because such is the genius of the people.
But to me there is too much horse-play, too much ruffianism and "bully-ragging.
It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms with the night.
Ruffianism may speak the language of learning or religion; it is ruffianism still.
The actual perpetrators of this unique act of ruffianism were nine in number.
But when matters had arrived at this pass, the violence of Mackenzie's enemies led them to commit an act of lawless ruffianism which gave the Advocate a new lease of life.
That display of ruffianism had been accomplished without the open approbation of the authorities.
