| 1. | By ruffian lust should be contaminat. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | But let the ruffian Boreas once enrag. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Swear like a ruffian and demean himsel. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | He was passing down a dark street when a ruffian in a mask sprang out upon him. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 6. | Who take the ruffian billows by the top. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | To die in ruffian battle Even at this sigh. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 10. | Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 12. | The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 13. | To-day he exists in the state of tradition among ruffians and assassins. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on M. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thenardier and the prisoner. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | This was the moment when Eponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 17. | At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the corridor. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 18. | But what was she to do How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded hi. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |