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In 1972, the Justices unanimously struck down a Jacksonville ordinance aimed at "rogues and vagabonds" along with "common railers and brawlers."

From Time Magazine Archive

No, sir, you get more by pious fools than railers, when you insinuate into their families, manage their fortunes while they live, and beggar their heirs, by getting legacies, when they die.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Yet the fair sex has the laugh on its side, for these railers at Al-Madinah as at other places, invariably marry.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It was better to carpere diem and its sweet loves and pleasures, and to leave the railers to grumble, or the seniors to advise, at their ease.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

And though he did not see me, I saw Felix, the prince of railers, who believes in nothing and cares for nothing except himself, for music is not with him a passion but an agrément.

From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Symons, Arthur