It was some time before the romance wore off, and the realities of human nature, where good is mixed with evil and Blackguardism marches in the same regiment with clean-hearted men, destroyed some of the illusions of the French and demanded an iron discipline from military police and made poor peasant girls repent of their abandonment in the first ecstasy of their joyous welcome.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
But the note of roughness and Blackguardism was not always sounded on American ships.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
King rode all but last now and had a good view of their unconsciously vaunted Blackguardism.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy