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Definition of Ruffians
1. ruffian [n] - See also: ruffian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruffians
Literary usage of Ruffians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1813)
"In a period of one hundred arui ninety years, the ruffians made four at- tempts
to plunder the ... 56 The wars of the ruffians and Greeks in the ixth, xth, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1802)
"In a period of one hundred and ninety years, the ruffians made four attempts to
plunder the ... i(> The wars of the ruffians and Greeks in tht ixth, ..."
3. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the by Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), John Obadiah Justamond (1783)
"They granted the ruffians the liberty offending a caravan every year tq Pekin,
an indulgence which had always been denied ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1801)
"... German Troops in* /lead of ruffians.—Debates thereon in bath ... to the'ruffians
in discipline, in courage, in military (kill, ..."
5. A Journey Into Siberia: Made by Order of the King of France by Chappe d'Auteroche (1770)
"... of the ruffians, C IBERIA was made known to the ruffians in 1563, ...
and afterwards conquered by the chief of a band of ruffians, under the reign of ..."
6. Leaven for Doughfaces, Or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery by Darius Lyman (1856)
"THE BOEDER ruffians. The Border ruffians reside in the City of the Capitol AN
honest country Democrat hearing a great deal said about Border ruffians, ..."
7. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... A Reckless Frontiersman — The Monomania of Assassination — A Wonderful Two-handed
Shot — Desperate Combat of Two Border ruffians— Dying Happy — Slade, ..."
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