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
Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?
From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
Singer was also the first to invent the "ruffler," a machine for ruffling or gathering cloth, and a device which laid an embroidering thread upon the surface of the cloth under the needle thread.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sit you upon your chair that I may call one to send this ruffler here.'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
