Exasperated at this, Lord Sanquhar hired ruffians, and had the fencing-master assassinated; for which his lordship was capitally tried, condemned, and hanged.

To frighten him one must look the ruffian in the face, or look the ruffian that he was.

It struck me as curious and not a little sinister that McMurtrie should be employing such an uncouth ruffian, but I supposed that he had some sound reason for his choice.

No one would ever have taken the brick-coloured, ragged-looking ruffians we had become for Europeans.

All Nicholas's feelings of rage, scorn, and indignation were concentrated into that moment, and, smarting at the blow, he sprang upon the schoolmaster, wrested the weapon from him, and, pinning him by the throat, beat the ruffian until he roared for mercy.

A French expedition captured the fort, hung the garrison one after the other, announcing that they did so, and hanged the ruffians "Not as Spaniards, but as traitors, thieves and murderers.

I have seen the reeling sea-ruffian, who had wandered into your receptacle, with the avowed intention of disturbing your quiet, from the very spirit of the place receive in a moment a new heart, and presently sit among ye as a lamb amidst lambs.

It was in vain that the latter endeavored to turn the ruffian from his purpose.

Perchance he would have show'd Dame Vanity, That in your court is suffered hourly; And bade you punish ruffians with long hair, New fashions, and such toys.

Astern, dangerously near, they saw the hostile craft, small, but listed heavily with crowding ruffians, packed so close that their great wicker hats hung along the gunwale to save room, and shone dim in the obscurity like golden shields of vikings.

When the German charged me, Max sprang upon the stone and dealt the swart ruffian a blow such as no man may survive.

He both hated and despised the coarse ruffian whose sham good-nature did not impose on him, and whom he knew for a brutal, dull-witted, mean-spirited bully.

They were ordered to sally forth, arrest and disarm the ruffians.

My uncle of course at once discharged the ruffian from his employ.

"Who pe you," he asked, "und what der teuffel you pe do dare?" To this piece of impudence, cruelty, and affectation, I could reply only by ejaculating the monosyllable "Help!" "Elp!" echoed the ruffian, "not I. Dare iz te pottleelp yourself, und pe tam'd!"

"Johnny Keats" had, indeed, "a little body with a mighty heart," and he showed it in the best way: not by fighting the ruffians,though he could have done that,but by the resolve that he would produce brain-work which not one of their party could approach; and he did.

When the outrage was communicated to Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where he had concealed himself, and slew him.

But when speech at length became possible, the two friends, fervently and with a religious awe, declared that their deliverer must have been divine and not human, so tremendous was the death-blow he had given the ruffian, and such winged and contemptuous slaughter he had dealt among the fugitives.

"Hates the old ruffian!" said the colonel.

My young friend knocked down the ruffian, and, in the conflict that ensued, broke Calli's arm.

In very truth my fertile brain was seething with plans for eventually laying that abominable ruffian by the heels: hanging would be a merciful punishment for such a miscreant.

Thus his trusty servants were summoned, and after being themselves attacked and nearly overborne, succeeded at last in mastering these scurvy ruffians and handing them over to the law, from which Mr. Aldobrand claimed sovereign justice.

"Durned if youse ain't der liveliest kid I ever seen!" muttered the astonished ruffian.

One after the other, I picked up the prostrate ruffians, carried them across and bundled them through the aperture.

Such grammar proclaimed a ruffian.