He was not a ruffian or a tyrant like his father, and had indeed not a few of the domestic virtues.
From his eye, he saw a third ruffian hurtle backward into the bushes.
They were subduing, for want of a better word, some dangerous ruffian.
In 1541 he lost two infant sons, and the mysterious affair of the death of that aesthetic ruffian, Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, was supposed to lie heavy on his mind.
Macpherson is said to have sent Johnson a challenge, to which Johnson replied that he was not to be deterred from detecting what he thought a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian.