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

To him your Bearnais is no better than a ruffler, a banditti captain, a guerilla chief.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"It is my intent to lead this company myself," he loftily informed the ruffler.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

Not a ruffler or a wench was in the streets after dark, nor any one save staid citizens upon their business, or the halberdiers of the watch.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

He showed me how to thread bobbin and needle, how to operate ruffler and tucker, and also how to turn off and on the electric current which operated the machinery.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy