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
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael
I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
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
"It is my intent to lead this company myself," he loftily informed the ruffler.
From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael
