The hooligan may be kicked for excessive foulness; but the rider of the high horse is brutally dragged down into the mire.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
This chapter brings back to me a day of fierce wind and blustering rain, when I walked by sodden roads and whistling hedges in my oldest clothes, till they hung heavily about me and creaked as I moved; the thought of the chapter came to me, I remember, when I decided that I had been far enough for health and even for glory, and when I fled back before the hooligan wind; then followed a long, quiet, firelit evening when I abandoned myself in luxurious case to my writing, till the drowsy clock struck the small hours of the morning.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
His friends frequently wrangle warmly as to whether he is most like Bayard, Lancelot, or Happy hooligan.
"The Man Upstairs and Other Stories"
P. G. Wodehouse