From what I have seen, however, I should be now led to think that there was at least as much vice, and of what we call rowdyism, in Richmond, as in any Northern town of its size. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
I suppose there was more turbulence and what would be called rowdyism in my day than now. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference
I say that I can picture to myself easily the sad earnestness with which you now point the thick thumb of your editorial refinement in deprecation of my choicer "rowdyism"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
There were no complaints of rowdyism in billets. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
Much of the rowdyism in baseball can be attributed to this cause. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
His love-making is passionate and impulsive, joyous almost to rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Observance of this rule will prevent much of the rowdyism that has characterized the game of baseball. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
During its brief existence it was a rattling noisy place, full of life and vigor, rowdyism predominating. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
All I find positive in this book is the ordinary sentimentality and rowdyism which we all enjoy when soldiering. From Wordnik.com. [The Monstrous Thing] Reference
The general rowdyism was at its height, when some one had the happy idea that Krafft should sing them his newest song. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
The fact of every man being armed, and in these far-off days probably a deadly shot, tended to keep down rowdyism and quarrelling. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The constant strain of excitement produced much dissipation certainly -- but it seldom took the reprehensible form of rowdyism and debauch. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
I witnessed many of these contests and can bear evidence that there was less rowdyism displayed than can be noted any day amongst the crowd on a modern race-course. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Lack of social sympathy increases as the interests become self-centred; out of this characteristic grow directly such evils as petty lawlessness, rowdyism, and crime. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The police tolerated no impudence, much less rowdyism, from the Negroes, and if a darky even looked mad, it was enough for some policeman to bend his club double over his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference
Blood for blood means to us either crime or rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Sydney and Melbourne, rival those of Victoria in rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
What fanaticism inspired rowdyism was more than ready to profit by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
They were found to be the sources of dissipation, rowdyism, and mischief. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
An atmosphere of rowdyism, theft, wantonness, hovers over some thoroughfares. From Wordnik.com. [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference
"We will have no rowdyism, no crimes against our little society, while we toil for our gold.". From Wordnik.com. [To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze] Reference
No one knew better than he how to compel submission by packed meetings and organized rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Unrest] Reference
It is very strange that Pliny also speaks of the turbulence or rowdyism of the firemen of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
Rather, an emptiness and a loneliness began to oppress me, only increased by the rowdyism below. From Wordnik.com. [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference
Such a perfect jam of people I have not often seen -- but there was no noise, no disorder, no rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
I felt that it was better to suffer than to resist, and such an exhibition of rowdyism was not to my taste. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student] Reference
The crowd is orderly and good-humored, and the occasion is rarely marred by any act of rowdyism or lawlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference
Those who came later, went home resolved to give up their rights rather than undergo a second experience of rowdyism. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference
All the sessions of this Convention were interrupted by the rowdyism of a number of men occupying the rear part of the hall. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
It also tended to substitute horseplay and rowdyism for mere fun -- greatly to the detriment of our self-respect and enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
He warned them against rowdyism, told them they must be back promptly at nine o'clock and said he hoped they'd have a good time!. From Wordnik.com. [Left End Edwards] Reference
A London crowd I thought the most normal and unsophisticated I had ever seen, with the least admixture of rowdyism and ruffianism. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
Mr. Jerome's liberality is appreciated by the outside throng, and the races are not marred with any act of rowdyism or lawlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference
Asserting a citizen could live anywhere in the country, he said rowdyism by MNS or Shiv Sena activists should not be tolerated at any cost. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
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