The coon gamblers, thieves, thugs and pimps were all on the staffs of these aldermen.
The evening papers of the same date report the following as examples of how the thieves and thugs avoid Chicago: "L.
It is acknowledged on all hands that Chicago is a singularly good place for thugs and thieves to avoid, and this notwithstanding the fact that the size of the police force is utterly inadequate.
Thugs and thieves, within the past two years, through the manipulation of the civil service law, have been admitted to its ranks, to its everlasting disgrace and that of the usurped appointing power.
After the rites were concluded the Thugs slipped away into the forest as silently as they had come.
The three Thugs ceased their attack, knelt and struck the ground thrice with their foreheads.
There would be some force in the argument that the law-abiding citizen has the right to carry a revolver to protect himself from thugs if his pistol were any real protection; but it is not.
Some were said to have children and are not to be divorced, but still seek life partners.
The Thugs were discovered to be occupying many villages in the pergunnahs of Sindouse, and to have paid, for generations, large sums annually to Sindia's Government for protection.
Some of the Thugs who had been seized were allowed life on the condition of denouncing their associates, and among others Feringhea, a leader of great notoriety.
Notice was given out to all the Thugs of that part of the country, that an expedition of great magnitude would be undertaken after the ensuing Dussera.
Almost every train takes out a load of roughs and thugswho are bent on mischief.
The ominous narrative particularizes the "buzz-wagon" packed with gun-hung thugs to whom ruthless murder is a mere incident of the chase.
Nor does the responsibility of America rest solely unto herself for the thieves and thugs she has bidden to her bosom, and there nurtured them with national pabulum that soured on their stomachs, or allowed them to be so nurtured.
And you came down the Mississippi in a launch called the 'Spray,' and were set upon by a gang of thugs and pirates!
Look at the way he put the rollers under the gang of thugs at our camp at Mackinac Island!
When a fellow's attacked by a gang of thugshe doesn't pray for boxing-gloves.
Within an hour one of them would be flying to Pelton with the news that he was at a meeting of the committee, and all the thugs of the other side would be turned loose on his heels.
First the solitary heathen kidnapping thugs saw shadows slip across the dim-lit bungalow window.
As the three thugs got ready for the fray the first act of the wicked drama was in full progress inside the parlour.
Just as I was starting for home, those two thugs set upon me.
I returned to where my automobile was waiting, started for the city and was attacked by two thugs near the section house.
These are the two thugs who set upon me up at the section house.
Had the thugs captured or attacked Tom to injure his father?
From thugs they were changing into murderous bandits; where formerly a man was knocked down or blackjacked the victims were now shot in cold blood.
The men you needed were thethugs and the criminals, who could stuff ballot-boxes for you.
It is they, sir, who finance the thugs and repeaters who desecrate our polls.
One of the downed thugs began to groan, and I said, "We'd better get the paddy wagon around to pick these boys up.
Then the two thugs heard our footsteps and turned to meet us.
It took a lot of guts to do what he did last night--walk over to those two thugs knowing he couldn't defend himself.
Intap kaáyu ang mga buguy níya kay ísug siya, The thugs are very much afraid of him because he is fierce.
Puúhan ang syudad sa mga buguy, They will get rid of the thugs in the city.
Giingun nga ariglahun si Bituy sa mga buguy, The thugs said they would liquidate Bitoy.
In America "hireling assassins," ex-convicts, and thugs in the employ of detective agencies commit very much the same crimes for the same purpose.
It was also shown that immediately after the assaults were committed the thugs were, if possible, shipped out of town for a few days; but, if they were arrested, they were defended by able attorneys and their fines paid.
Thugs and thieves and criminals don the badge and outward semblance of the honest private detective in order that they may prey upon society.
Again and again, mediators have declared that, as soon as thugsare brought into the conflict, the settlement of a strike is made impossible until either the employers or the men are exhausted by the struggle.
One of the leaders of the union was killed, while others were brutally attacked by thugs in the employ of a Chicago detective agency.
The Thugs went afterwards to the priests of Kalee to receive a blessing, and they rewarded the priests by giving them some of their stolen treasures.
Do not these Thugs resemble him who is always walking about seeking whom he may devour?
These men also were Thugs; and they had agreed with the other Thugs to help them in their wicked plans.
And we'd better be using it," Biff put in, "before those thugs get the same idea.
With an international spy ring haunting an old gold mine and thugs trying to steal a ruby as a gift for the goddess Kali, almost anything could happen to any of us, anywhere!
This is where the thugs themselves meet to worship Kali.
Then we can lie low here," Biff said, "until after the thugs have gone.
Already, high-pitched cries of glee were sounding from within the very walls of the crumbling temple that the thugs had turned into a trap baited with their idol, Kali.
And I never realized that the thugs were so active again," commented Barma Shah.
How many thugs do you think were on the train with us, Chandra?
They trailed longer, as though the thugs were telling each other something, perhaps that they had helpless victims caught between.
They tried, but thugs go underground so we still go under water.
But thugs will strangle almost anybody if they find suitable time and place, because they believe in Kali.
However, they can't prove that he strangled anything beyond a few cats and dogs when he showed Maud how to use the roomal--that's the handkerchief with which the Thugs strangled their victims.
I strangled them because I loved to see them suffer, and because I wished to learn how to strangle in the way the Thugs did.
Tupounee is the sacrifice made by the Thugs after a successful crime, and roomal the handkerchief with which they strangled their victims.
Kali is the owner of the Marble Rocks, but she is the patroness of the ex-Thugs as well.
The difference between the two is that the Thugs certainly were a criminal organization, whereas the Freemasons of our days do no harm, except to their own pockets.
Out of thirty-seven Thugs caught by the police there were twenty-two Mahometans.
What did his faith mean to the thugs of the General Fuel Company?
Private Ownership of clubs and revolvers, and of thugs and ex-convicts to use them, driving away rescuers and shutting up agonised widows and orphans in their homes!
There are companythugs watching the place all the time.
The Thugs would speak of such places with the same affection and enthusiasm as other men would of the most delightful scenes of their early life.
To assist the grave-diggers in this duty all roads used by Thugs had selected places upon them at which murders were always carried out if possible.
The Thugs were usually men seemingly occupied in most respectable and often in most responsible positions.
In Ramaseeana the author has fully described the practices of the Thugs in taking omens, and the feelings with which they regarded their profession.
The Thugs were suppressed because a special organization was devised and directed for the purpose, the English rules as to the admissibility of evidence being judiciously relaxed.
The author's other works show that the Thugs frequently assumed the guise of ascetics, and much of the secret crime of India is known to be committed by men who adopt the garb of holiness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thugs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
