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

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 Reed, Talbot Baines

He was as bold and venturesome as the bravest ruffler that ever backed a dog at a baiting.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

As for Falconnet, he was even then a ruffler and a bully, though he was not of the army.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael