Their excesses of ruffianism are not easily described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

President Buchanan in denouncing border-ruffianism in Kansas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

It was evident that success had but developed his ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

Repeating, ballot-box stuffing, ruffianism, and false counting decided everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

They know the venal ruffianism of the fist and bludgeon, as well as that of the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

The ruffianism of these scoundrels did not allow them even to apologize for their crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

It was what he wanted to do — to bring out the innate ruffianism of this man he did not like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference

Asiatic ruffianism, much of which is at all times percolating through the magnificent Victoria prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

The ruffianism of the South had been fully armed in advance of the full disclosure of the plot to secede.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

No sooner had the Nebraska Bill passed, in May, 1854, than the terrible scenes of "border ruffianism" began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference

Sumner was the counterpart of border ruffianism in Kansas, and perhaps did more to stir the blood of the people of the Northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

It is by such men's work and sacrifices that we shall stamp out ruffianism, and lift our State to a high respect for law and order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

Rampant Pro-slavery will exalt its horn against Righteousness and try again the virtue of ruffianism to prevail against civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Pacific Railway Company dismissed Mr. Smith from its services, are self-convicted at least of the most dangerous and brutal ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier] Reference

Occasionally some distinguished passengers passed on the upward and downward tides of rascality and ruffianism, that swept periodically through Cruces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

And we must freely admit when street ruffianism has reached a certain point, there is but one thing to do, and that is to bring in firmly and strongly the arm of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference

The officer of the National Guard came with his regiment into this valley of distress to protect survivors from ruffianism and maintain the peace and dignity of the State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

They posed, making pictures of malignant ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference

The grounds were clean, and there was no ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)] Reference

On the same occasion it stated that although English ruffianism had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference

The actual perpetrators of this unique act of ruffianism were nine in number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

All ruffianism affronts me, and actions legitimate in others are crimes in me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zanoni] Reference

But to me there is too much horse-play, too much ruffianism and "bully-ragging.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Apart from Cellini's ruffianism there are several points of contact between the two men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

The Merries were not frightened by it, and Frank had prepared to quell any outbreak of ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block] Reference

The mishap gave me my first real opportunity of judging these men in the depth of their ruffianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea] Reference

I saw more men -- more weeping women -- more red ruffianism; I saw nought of her for whom I searched.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

But what a pity it is that "excited politicians" so often string themselves up to (verbal) "ruffianism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893] Reference

His life, without doubt, was deeply stained with crimes and vices, and his reputation for ruffianism was a deserved one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

Though his gratitude has given way to the greed of gold, he has not yet sunk to the level of that ruffianism around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

Halfman followed, a very Jaques of meditations, touched by the pathos of the tired King, grimly diverted by the ruffianism of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] 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

"There is nothing which injures true Liberalism more than the sympathy of its left wing with the loose ruffianism of unsettled States.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference