ruffler

Example Sentences

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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now—now in the crib, where a ruffler may lie, Without fear that the traps should distress him, With a drop in the mouth, and a drop in the eye, Here's to Gentleman George,—God bless him!

From Paul Clifford — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The ruffler paused a moment, as if awaiting a reply or a word of encouragement.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

He thought next—and with increasing bitterness—of his own brave schemes, of his love for Valentina, and of how assured he had been that his affections were returned, before this ruffler came amongst them.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

He.—I would do like all other beggars set on horseback: I would be the most insolent ruffler that has ever been seen.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John