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

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

A fourth ruffler desired office, and cared not to offend a prospective Councilor.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary

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)

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael