roughrider

Example Sentences

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He was a permanent employee with no rap sheet and an interest in technology, but outside the plant he had a reputation as a roughrider.

From The New Yorker

Friends came to his rescue, however, and bid in his famous white horse, Ishan, which the Colonel always rode at the head of his roughriders.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps a half-hour after she entered the bungalow for breakfast she appeared again in the familiar roughrider’s outfit, adjusting the leather-fringed skirt over her breeches as she stood in the doorway.

From Project Gutenberg

I like him; he's the best roughrider I ever saw.

From Project Gutenberg

They are more ready to copy a corps of roughriders than a Roman cohort.

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