rugged

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When he saw the lightweight tents we�d packed, Billbob kicked the dirt and declared, �We needa get us a ruggeder outfit than that.�

From Time Magazine Archive

Up and beyond the spring, the farther one chose to look, the rockier and the ruggeder everything seemed to be.

From Two Arrows A Story of Red and White by Stoddard, William Osborn

The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various

And in every mile they grew larger and ruggeder and farther apart, and so high that I could hardly see the tips.

From The Young Forester by Grey, Zane

As he progressed, the gorge widened into wilder, ruggeder aspect.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane