ruffler

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Am I to be schooled in my duty by rapacious malcontents, and to be driven to put away my trustiest friends, to make room for such thirsty leeches and coarse rufflers as John Coode?

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

This sweet youth is not fit company for rude soldiers and ill-bred rufflers of the camp.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

It was not long therefore before a band of rufflers swung round a corner arm-in-arm, taking the whole breadth of the narrow causeway with them as they came.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

To draw swords for trifles had become the obligatory accompaniment of good manners; and as gallantry had its finished fops, so the duel had its refined rufflers.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

And it maintained that reputation well into the next century, growing ever more and more in favour with the gamblers and rufflers of the times.

From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)