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
He thought next—and with increasing bitterness—of his own brave schemes, of his love for Valentina, and of how assured he had been that his affections were returned, before this ruffler came amongst them.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.
From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
