While I was standing at the door of the theater taking the tickets, the landlord of the hotel came rushing up and said that Wild Bill was having a fight with the roughs in the bar-room.

There will probably be some roughs on board, who will be certain to get up a row, in which case you can make the babies in arms very effective as "buffers" for warding off blows, while the crowd will save you from being knocked down.

"Harry, youyou're so rough with him.

At one time he's a sober gentleman of the stiff old school; at another he's as rough as the roughest hobo I've met in the West.

I have had a fit of despondency in consequence of being obliged to renounce my own observations as too rough for use.

Nor shines your influence, Sir, here alone, The Church must your unequall'd prudence own, Firm to support the cause, but rough to none.

Thorn was a Massachusetts volunteer; a man who seemed too early old, too early embittered by some cross, for, though grim of countenance, rough of speech, cold of manner, a keen observer would have soon discovered traces of a deeper, warmer nature hidden behind the repellent front he turned upon the world.

" Slade, although rough at times and always a dangerous characterhaving killed many a manwas always kind to me.

If she had been compelled to modify her first impression of him as an arrogant, dominant sort of character, scarcely less rough than the brown firs out of which he was hewing a fortune, she knew likewise that she had never seen anything but the sunny side of him.

One day at Titusville, Pennsylvania, while Burke, the business agent, was registering our names and making arrangements for our accommodation, several of us started for the billiard room; but were met by the landlord, who stopped me and said that there was a party of roughs from the lower oil region who were spreeing, and had boasted that they were staying in town to meet the Buffalo Bill gang and clean them out.

The Homely Man Looks as though a cyclone hit him Can't buy clothes that seem to fit him; An' his cheeks are rough like leather, Made for standin' any weather.

" "Right idea!" "There's nothing rough about me, Lew.

It was cloudy and starless, with a chill mist hanging over the valley; but my uncle's cob was a swift one, and we soon began to ascend the hill up past the castle, and then, turning to the left, drove along a steep, rough by-road which led to the south of the wood and out across the moor.

" I suppose it must have been the tacit acknowledgment of some superiority by me inappreciable, that accorded to one individual of the small assemblage of roughs under notice a decidedly influential position among the congenial spirits hovering around.

Brothers All Under the toiler's grimy shirt, Under the sweat and the grease and dirt, Under the rough outside you view, Is a man who thinks and feels as you.

He didn't suppose the old man would have cut so rough without plenty of cause.

There's one thing," he added, after a few moments' thought"if she'd cut up rough over the letter, she might have called him Mr. Acton.

This portion of the edifice was executed in the rough during his residence at Florence.

Thirdly, he is somewhat rough against his own party, "who having tasted the sweets of Protestant liberty, can look back so tamely on Popery coming on them; it looks as if they were bewitched, or that the devil were in them, to be so negligent.

"I'm afraid, sir," turning to Abraham, "that you find our manners pretty rough after your life among the old ladies.

"But I believe the river is going to be pretty rough before long.

It was rough off Flattery, and he suffered agonies strange and terrifying.

The procession again moved on; the road was very steep and rough between the walls of the town and Calvary, and Jesus had the greatest difficulty in walking with his heavy burden on his shoulders; but his cruel enemies, far from feeling the slightest compassion, or giving the least assistance, continued to urge him on by the infliction of hard blows, and the utterance of dreadful curses.