Ruffian

(n.) A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

(n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.

(a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.

(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

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• It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Little as I know of the law, I am certain that it can protect a woman from such treatment as that ruffian has inflicted on you to-day. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Nothing could be more becoming to your complexion than that ruffian's rouge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Tall and muscular as I was in form, I must have looked like, what indeed I was, the merest ruffian that ever trod the earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• None of your mistering,' replied the ruffian; 'you always mean mischief when you come that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Sikes knew too much, and his ruffian taunts had not galled Fagin the less, because the wounds were hidden. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Then he raised his revolver and covered the young ruffian, who was advancing upon him with his dangerous riding-crop swinging in his hand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Her voice once drowned by the shout of ruffian defiance, and I shall be full of impulses to resist and quell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I pity the ruffian who crosses you, my wild man, when I take you to Paris. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The kindly, charitable, good old governor--how could he have fallen into the clutches of such a ruffian! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• To-morrow the ruffian had declared that I should die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Ye have sufficient ruffians of your own, said De Bracy; not one of mine shall budge on such an errand. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And I don't believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The crew were a set of ruffians, specially picked for the job. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The ruffians tore him shrieking out of her arms, and have never allowed him to see her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I cannot hear unmoved that ruffians have laid in wait for him, and shot him down, like some wild beast from behind a wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Several times last night, when the supernumeraries entered the arena to drag out the bodies, the young ruffians in the gallery shouted, Supe! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am seeking the last resting place of those ruffians. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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