Roughs
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And so those two brave-hearted fellows made their way amidst the yelping
roughs
, like two wounded lions amidst a pack of wolves and jackals.
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There are a certain number of riverside
roughs
who make quite an income, during the summer, by slouching about the banks and blackmailing weak-minded noodles in this way.
Being out in a boat on the river Lea, especially on Saturday afternoons, soon makes you smart at handling a craft, and spry at escaping being run down by
roughs
or swamped by barges; and it also affords plenty of opportunity for acquiring the most prompt and graceful method of lying down flat at the bottom of the boat so as to avoid being chucked out into the river by passing tow-lines.
As he reached the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger and a little knot of
roughs.
The
roughs
had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose."
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