Not that I had ever doubted the identity of the ruffianly Ernest Berty; still it was very satisfactory to have my surmises confirmed.
Her ruffianly son was even now being conveyed by Leroux and his gendarmes to the frontier, where the law would take its course.
Defn: One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.
And to the last bold, ruffianly iconoclast they stole when, where, and what they dared.
A more ruffianly set of fellows I never set eyes on.
Rayner recognised them as the most ruffianly of the schooner's crew.
We might have been captured by a set of ruffianly fellows, who would have robbed us and ill-treated us in every way.
One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
He heard the ruffianly guards in the outer room uttering excited exclamations.
Then he told of the encounter with Dulzura's ruffianly crew, upon hearing which Dick's companion of the trail uttered a cry.
If you are ambitious to be classed among the vilest and most ruffianly of your species, use such language; but if your ambition soars higher than this, avoid it as you would the pestilence.
We were stoutly met by as motley, and, at the same time, as ruffianly a set of men as it has ever been my lot to encounter; and a most desperate struggle forthwith ensued.
Upstairs tripped the ruffianly bully as lightly and noiselessly as a grasshopper, followed closely by his aristocratic patron, and in a moment the two men stood before the chamber of the unconscious sleeper.
I soon found that we were among as ruffianly and disreputable a set of fellows as I had ever fallen in with, but none of them interfered with us, and I began to doubt whether we should obtain the information we were in search of.
The properties of a few, said to be Unionists, were endangered; and ruffianly soldiers climbed to the windows of the hospital, hooting and taunting the sick.
That was ruffianly conduct, of which progress would have for ever to be ashamed," said the banker indignantly.
Do you call a piece of wanton impudence, a ruffianly outrage against several hundreds of men entitled to respect, a trifle?
The ruffianly crew had in their minds only the immediate possession of what they could get from the Indians; the Admiral had in his mind the whole possession of the islands and the bodies and souls of its inhabitants.
The ruffianly attack on Dick and Carl by Mings and Packard, who, under orders from Sercomb, were plotting to carry Dick off to the quicksands, horrified me.
This ranch belongs to me, and you and your ruffianly friends will leave it.
They tacked and tacked, they were beat and tacked again, the sea washing over me, and the ruffianly sailors trampling upon me without the slightest remorse, whenever they had any occasion to pass back or forward.
This poor thing was obliged to punish a school-child, the daughter of one of the bargemen on the Thames, a huge ruffianly man.
Fast as they were, the two girls shrank from rambling alone in streets thronged with figures that they associated with ruffianly destitution.
The crusaders and the Greeks were mutually contemptuous, the former with a ruffianly pride, the latter with an ironical and timid refinement.
We have moral records confronting ruffianly deeds; and the contrast is shocking, but real.
It was a ruffianly proceeding; but the reform was popular in Limoges and was effected.
He looked his man over from head to foot, and thought he had never seen a more ruffianly bearing, a wilder, sadder face.
