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

But I never yet saw a bookworm that did not pale his fires before a soldier of fortune, nor a scholar that did not follow the courtier and the ruffler with eyes of envy.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

Were I called suddenly to the palace would not the king and the court despise me as a drunken ruffler from some revel-rout that had fallen from his horse?

From A Boy's Ride by Zollinger, Gulielma

I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

But whose son he is I may not say, for Heaven denies having borne this ruffler, and so Earth and so Sea.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)