roughrider
Example Sentences
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He was a permanent employee with no rap sheet and an interest in technology, but outside the plant he had a reputation as a roughrider.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
They will pair her soon-to-be-born child with the roughrider of the purple sage and tug at the nation's heartstrings.
From Time Magazine Archive
I like him; he's the best roughrider I ever saw.
From The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould
Behind her, farther back in the room, the roughrider caught a glimpse of a fat, gross, ashen-faced man fleeing toward the inner door of a bedroom to escape being seen.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by William MacLeod Raine
The Joven, having met with no serious accidents during the two years he had officiated as roughrider, had kept his nerve, and was still young enough to enjoy his hazardous duties most thoroughly.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
