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Yet we would be "roughs" -- and she and her crew must be "treated with the deference due the gentler sex."

The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

Of course, the line quality of the roughs is the "loose" holy grail of drawing, and when we tried to put down the finishing touches as the R train barreled into Prince Street, the drawings became not only "tight," but often wrong.

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And here I may remark that on parade, where all the prisoners exercised together, they associated in classes as they would do outside -- the "roughs," the "prigs," the

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

Our brief conversation was cheerful, and my hearty congratulations for his escape from the Baltimore "roughs" were received with a laugh.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

Diagonally across the street was a disreputable bar-room, where all the "roughs" assembled every night; and for no less than three weeks after the "Conservative" victory these fellows kept up a shouting and howling, which was far from agreeable to me.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

In one of the numerous public-houses in the town of St. Peter-Port, surrounded by a gang of "roughs," a man, still young, sat on a stool.

The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel

Prisoners could do very much as they liked in those days, and the consequence was that the "roughs," or the worst characters, gave the "ton" to the whole prison.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

If any two classes can be singled out in the community as the largest habitual consumers of tobacco, it must be the college students and the city "roughs" or "rowdies," or whatever the latest slang name is, -- for these roysterers, like oysters, incline to names with an _r_ in.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

He had gone on foot since, with his tireless strength, he could so travel across the "roughs" at better than a mounted pace and be less cumbered.

A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

That night during the hour of preaching some "roughs" took our

Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky 1891