I rode round the country, calling upon the young men in the villages to take up arms, to rescue their friends who had been carried away captive into slavery, and to revenge the destruction which this band of ruffians had caused.
General Clements, on the 24th, engaged a body of fierce ruffians near Winburg, where he had gone to gather guns and supplies prior to combining his force with those at Lindley, Heilbron, and Heidelberg.
It was an awful moment: the nine armed ruffians were already standing outside, shouting to the owner of the place to give them up their prisoner, and threatening to burn down the house and kill all the inmates if he refused.
There were seven of the Greasers, so there was a total of ten ruffians gathered in the cabin.
You are right, Skipper," said the shepherd, "we are liable to find the worst kind of cutthroats and ruffians in this part of the country.
I have hired half a dozen Ruffians from the tavern yonder, to waylay him with sticks on his way from here, and to give him the sound thrashing he deserves.
The Ruffians were apparently satisfied with their hideous work; but they still stood about at the top of the Alley, laughing and talking, waiting no doubt for their Blood Money.
I did not feel the blows which one or two of the Ruffians thought fit to deal to Me.
It was considered, therefore, that the General must be from home, on one of his ever-recurring journeys, and that his servant Cleg had been attacked by the ruffians who had run off at the sound of the alarm raised by Vara.
Samson Langpenny sat down to teach the Border Ruffians of the Sooth Back—Cleg Kelly's class.
Still the ruffians held back, and swore roundly, that they would not stir, unless carried across the stream; and at this display of obstinacy, Mike lost all mercy.
We rode off, followed by the shouts and maledictions of the gang, and even when we were one hundred rods distant I could hear the ruffians call after us, bidding us return and learn bravery from them.
The ruffianswere seized with a sudden panic, and would have fled, but their retreat was cut off, and there was no chance for escape.
While the ruffians were discussing what, punishment should be meted out to her, the girl eluded their vigilance and fled, not knowing or caring where her footsteps led her, as long as she escaped from their horrid threats and obscene jests.
The ruffians replied with oaths and jeers, but they were too energetic to be sincere, and I suspected they were intended expressly for my ear, as I stood not far from them listening to every word that was uttered.
O, that the ruffians should abuse a dacent lad, who has worked night and day for the paraties that he ates, and the meat that he drinks.
The bushrangers had ambushed the party and shot them at their leisure, and did the business as coolly and with as much indifference as though the poor fellows had been sheep, and the ruffians hungry and in want of mutton.
We answered back that we were ready, and dashed forward just as the ruffians had decided that to hang the woman would be a more pleasant spectacle than to burn her.
This they promised to do, and I started on my mission, not a dangerous one, as I knew full well, for the ruffians did not suspect the presence of our force, and I felt certain that they had no sentinels posted.
For it might be any one of a score of border ruffians who owed him a grudge and would be glad to pay it in the silent desert that tells no tales and betrays no secrets to the inquisitive.
Let us neither sack nor pillage, but show our great president in the City of Mexico that not ruffians but an outraged people have driven out the oppressors.
And as for the rest--we expect to make a selection, me son, to weed out a few choice ruffians and keep them behind the bars.
Either you or I may find a chance to speak to one of them; but there's no time to be lost, for we can't say at what moment these ruffians may take it into their heads to carry out their villainous designs.
Though the ruffians who carried you off and put you into the vault might not have intended to leave you to starve, they most probably would have been unable to return.
Your appearance with your blunderbuss loaded up to the muzzle will be sufficient to deter any of the ruffians from attacking us.
I had such a run of luck last night, with five for the main, and seven to five all night, until those ruffians wanted to pay me with Altamont's bill upon me.
We must be out of this as fast as we can," said Mr Saunders to me, "for very likely those fellows who made their escape will rouse their friends, and we may have a mob of all the ruffians in the town upon us before we can reach the boats.
No; we must defend ourselves, and I fear that if these ruffians persevere, they will succeed at last," whispered La Touche to me.
We have only six small pop-guns, and as we muster only eleven hands, all told, we might find it a hard job to keep a crew of one hundredruffians or more at bay.
When I did see their countenances, it struck me that they were as hideous a set of ruffians as any of those I had before seen.
But they are the same sort of ruffians as those who destroyed the Bastile.
My friend, whilst I was speaking, stood pale and trembling; the rope was round his neck, and the ruffians had hold of the end, as if eager to strangle him.
We will close all the lower doors and windows, and set the ruffians at defiance if they come.
Notwithstanding what I said, theruffians still pressed upon us, and attempted to drag Monsieur Planterre away, shouting, "A la lanterne!
We shall require a strong party to overpower the fellows, especially as there are some desperate ruffians among them;" and I told him how I had discovered the outlaw, Dan Hoolan.
She could not have hoped to stop the ruffians for an instant, but she thought they meant to injure her mistress, and so was offering her own bosom first to the murderous blades.
You had better fall back on your ruffians and guess again," added the colonel, as he placed himself at the side of Major Lyon.
Major Lyon, addressing a mulatto who had the reputation of being a very intelligent fellow, "you will go to the fort and tell Levi we are going over to Lyndhall, for we are sure the ruffians mean to burn the house.
The four mounted men began to use their repeaters; but their horses were restive, and they could not fire at the best advantage, though several of the ruffians were seen to fall, while the main body of them fled into the adjoining fields.
Some of the ruffians had muskets; and whether in obedience to the orders of their leaders or not, three random shots were fired.
Yes; some of the ruffians tried to break up the meeting, and we put them out without any ceremony.
I talked over the situation with our friends here, and we concluded that the ruffians would be over here before morning to capture their victims, and burn your mansion.
Just at the foot of Rock Hill there is a cart-path connecting the two roads, and the ruffians may come through by that passage, though it is very rough.
Major Lyon and the recruits started back to the mansion as soon as the ruffians had effected their escape.
I don't mean to hit the men there, or even the raft; but I want you to notice what effect the shot produces upon the ruffians at the work.
The retreating army of the ruffians suddenly halted without any orders from Captain Titus or any one else as the echo of the report struck upon their ears.
The ruffians evidently intended that the Union army should not be recruited in the county.
I reckon we needn't fire another shot, for the ruffians won't go near that raft again," added Levi.
Occasionally these frocked and sandalled ruffiansmet with deserved retribution at the hands of those whose homes they desolated.
The officer ordered the ruffians to be searched; and the purse and watch of Raymond were found upon the chief beggar.
Only a few low ruffiansgo to prize–fights in England and America,” replied the doctor warmly.
We softened our foot-steps as we drew near unto the cabin, and we could hear the ruffians within, singing, swearing, dancing.
He let me take the gun, and as he stood near me, waiting for the ruffians to pass, I thought that he made an unseemly degree of noise, merely to attract their attention so that he might have an opportunity to fire at them.
We were a merry party, but what a set of ruffians we looked!
Hayward was globe-trotting up Yasin way when these ruffians rushed his camp, seized him, and carried him into a wood with the intention of killing him.
When, indeed, will folks at home grasp the fact that the Berber clans of southern Morocco belong to a race differing utterly in character and largely in customs from the ruffians infesting the northern half of the sultanate?
Further east a distinct race of pirates flourished, including Turks and Greeks and ruffians from every shore, but they were not Moors, of whom the Salli rover was the type.
One of the three ruffians whom I employed to recover your debt has paid for all the others.
All that now remained, according to national usage, was to present some gratuity to the dirty ruffians who had crawled from every corner of the village to wish me joy of my new possession.
Armed ruffians and bludgeon men were employed to barricade the houses and resist the civil power.
Another instance of the lawlessness of the times is to be seen in the desperate attack made by some forty ruffians on a watch-house in Moorfields, where an accomplice was kept a prisoner.
Any alms collected within the prison by direct mendicancy were commonly intercepted by the ruffians who ruled the roost.
In the country gangs of ruffians disguised in female attire, the forerunners of Rebecca and her daughter, ran a muck against turnpike gates, demolishing all they found.
One of these ruffians was described in the proclamation offering rewards for their apprehension as "above six feet high, black eyebrows, his teeth broke before;" another had a large scar under his chin.
These ruffians knocked people down and wounded them before they demanded their money.
Clodius's hired ruffians had filled up the entrances to the voting boxes.
The loyalists hold aloof owing to the entreaties of Clodius: bands of ruffians are being got together: I myself, at first a stern Lycurgus, am becoming daily less and less keen about it: Cato is hot and eager.
For as soon as he got up Clodius's ruffians raised a shout, and throughout his whole speech he was interrupted, not only by hostile cries, but by personal abuse and insulting remarks.
And yet in this prison of Madrid were some of the most desperate characters in Spain: ruffians who had committed acts of cruelly and atrocity sufficient to make the flesh shudder.
Six or seven of these soldiers marched a considerable way in front; they were villainous looking ruffians upon whose livid and ghastly countenances were written murder, and all the other crimes which the decalogue forbids.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruffians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
