roughs

The nuns should have been pleased with such a champion to deliver them, surrounded as they were by a company of roughs.

He might have had some of his roughs run Delray off while those wireless instruments were bein' smashed.

They found the room already occupied by some six or eight street roughs, evidently waiting for what might transpire.

Not long after, the vigilance committee hanged four men, and roughs and law-breakers left town for the mines.

As the roughs began to pile out of the darkened saloon, the false detective gave vent to a nervous laugh.