From the theatre, therefore, we can only argue directly to the small circle of the rowdy debauchees who gathered round the new king.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
That this seedy, disreputable-looking rowdy should turn out to be the relative of whom he was in search was something of a shock, and that such a specimen as this should have it in its power to advance his prospects in life seemed incredible.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
At a long beer-bedabbled table sits a host of his former schoolfellows, rowdy fellows, some of them, whom as a rule he seeks to avoid.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann