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terror. Wirry appears in several other compound words such as wirry hen, a ruffianly character, a rogue; wirry-boggle, a rogue, a rascal; and wirry-carle,...

broken-hearted Plaintiff's case, adding that they "needn't mind" what the "ruffianly defendant" has to say. He notes, for the record, that "From bias free...

thousand ages, as these are poetically called. Tung Fu-hsiang, whose ruffianly Kansu braves were marched out of the Chinese city--that is the outer ring...

(Solo für Klarinette), 1998 – in a Berlin apartment house a man is found ruffianly murdered with a clarinet. A burnt out police inspector follows a suspicious...

sophisticated highwayman, but Bernard Lee provides ample compensation as the ruffianly, hirsute Black John" In the Radio Times, David Parkinson gave the film...

term misunderstood by later writers, who have denounced Mosley as "a ruffianly old privateer from Jamaica". There is no evidence to connect him either...

sending him a note challenging him to a duel to 'take satisfaction for your ruffianly conduct towards my wife'. An additional attempt to shoot him followed...

scoundrelism they must have been! ... in this bad place, among these ruffianly companions! horse-jockeys, highwaymen-captains, unfrocked parsons; deboshed...

Sheriff's posse, he and his wife... had been compelled to wait on the ruffianly gange, and get horses, arms, and provisions for them, and were forced...

his Regt. He was a principal leader in the mutiny of 1857 & of a most ruffianly disposition. He took possession (at the head of a small party) of the...

population of poor Irish people, characterized by a police sergeant as a 'bad, ruffianly, thievish place' in the 1860s and by James Greenwood as the 'slummiest...

to the already bad reputation of the North Melbourne ground and the "ruffianly element" of its patrons. On 2 October, the day before the playoff match...