Naturally their boarders were made up of all classes, both women and men,--some being gamblers and toughs of the lowest order.
One day Billy's mother was passing a crowd of toughs on the street.
Besides, I have certain theories concerning toughs which my friend the sergeant says are rot, and I was not averse to testing them on the Kid.
But, even so, the Kid had proved that my theories about toughs were not rot.
The first time I saw it, it looked a penitentiary; and when I spotted all you toughs dropping in, it promised to be a Hades.
And he, the product of culture, the flower of chivalry, the superman, would bribe the toughs to smash up the Manchester Guardian!
Footnote 35: The name bestowed upon it by the older toughs before the fact, not after.
The maintenance of discipline among a lot of toughs like those I selected isn't child's play," he said.
And, though expense is no object, it don't do to keep a crew of fifty toughs in harbour wondering why they don't start on a cruise that's to end in a pile of dollars for all of them.
One policeman, who had a difficult beat, where there were many toughs and criminals, said that the distribution of police relief made his work easier, as toughs whose families had been relieved did not trouble him so much.
The latest invention for toughsto hand out murder with.
Rimatsíhun ka sa mga buguy ug dì ka manghátag ug sigarilyu, The toughs will beat you up if you don’t give them cigarettes.
Mga buguy tung nagparigla níya, It was street toughs that attacked him.
Ang Pásil kunu mauy sálag sa mga butangíru, Pasil is where the toughs come from.
Mangliklik lang ta kay náay daghang buguy dihà sa agiánan, Let’s go around because there are lots of toughs on the road.
The younger reporter came over and took down the information as the cop and the two toughs gave it to the sergeant.
Twenty minutes later, two very large--and very obedient young toughs stumbled in, followed by an angry officer.
You've growed up with just the same ideas the young toughshave 'round here.
But you know even toughs occasionally use their brains.
That's why it's so hard to get hold of these young toughs down here!
A little gang of toughs first jostled him and then turned and followed in his footsteps.
Why, there isn't one of my toughs that wouldn't go rat-hunting for a quarter of that.
I saw my toughs lay out a guy only the other day for flashing a smaller wad than you'd carry.
The number's probably a false one--a board slipped over the real number, as they did in the Dalston case when some American toughs went through that jeweller a month or two back.
At the time I didn't attach any significance to the fact that two or three of the worst toughs at the table went out shortly after him.
Although he's known toughs in all corners of the world, he's never been mixed up in any dirty business.
He knew that Shultberger was the guardian angel of the neighborhood toughs in time of storm and trouble.
Annie began to pull back, and it looked as though some of the toughs would interfere.
For a moment more we were safe upon the street again, and the two toughs slunk away up the alley.
You saved me from those toughsthat wanted to rob me last night?
He and two othertoughs were waiting for me by appointment.
I remember shortly after the green goods case that an order came to me from the inspector to look into the matter of a gang of young toughs who were believed to make their headquarters in an unused sewer away up on First avenue.
If ever a mob oftoughs was frightened it was then!
A few ruffians, however, began abusing the showmen, and a genuine fight ensued, which was a repetition of most of the others, and some of the toughs were badly hurt.
Upon the authority of the city police and firemen, I can state that the fires were started by a crowd of young hoodlums and toughs living in the vicinity, and the strikers were in no way responsible for them.
The town had become infested with a gang of toughs from Chicago, who overturned a number of box cars and blocked the passage of trains.
John Burke, identified by the police as a professional crook, was another victim and his presence in the mob adds evidence to the claim of the Times that the rioting was the work of chronic toughs and criminals and not of workingmen.
There was only a small crowd of these young toughs around the yards, they scattered in different directions and simultaneously fire broke out in different places.
The troops who were ensconced in passenger cars were being hauled up and down the track, when a gang of toughs attempted to overturn a Pullman coach.
The law abiding element numbered about a thousand, the toughs as many more.
The toughs were known and the judgments of the Court generally right.
He it was who ran the construction trains--fought the Indians and the toughs and bore the heat and burden of the day.
There is too much slavery for him amongtoughs of the gang order, and he cannot move around as freely as he likes.
In New York city, for example, there are various gangs of toughs who prowl about the town committing all sorts of depredations and making themselves generally feared.
The toughswere gone, with the old tenements that harbored them.
The retiring toughs have dubbed it "Holy Terror Park" in memory of what it was, not of what it is.
I was in the East Thirty-fifth Street police station one night when an officer came in with two young toughs whom he had arrested in a lumber yard where they were smoking and drinking.
Toughs have votes just as they have brickbats and brass-knuckles; when the emergency requires, an assortment to suit of the one as of the other.
Four years ago," said their friend, the clergyman, "these same boys stoned us and carried on like the toughs they were.
The tenants knew thetoughs were there, but were afraid of betraying them.
It's not nice to have a gang oftoughs up against you.
There are decent folks here, but the curious thing is that when you let two or threetoughs into a place they seem to get on top.
There's some diking being done on a salt marsh not far away, and the last time I was there it struck me there were some hard-looking white toughs on the workings.
But no doubt it was here that he won his strength and learned to out-match the toughs of the neighborhood.
The story goes that around "Battletown," an intersection in the roads where toughs used to fight for the joy of combat, young Morgan was in the habit of placing large stones at strategic points.
One Thousand cheerful toughsto enlist for the period of the war in the Kangaroo Marines.
I expect your friends have been dealing with the Pitt Street toughs or Manly larrikins.
It might be harder to deal with than the savage, illiterate toughs he was used to.
Toughs as they were, these two men fully appreciated the company they were in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
