"How can a man have patience," cried Hilton, "seized in this ruffianly way!"
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
The man she loved-worshipped with all the warm wild fervour of her maiden heart-that man a prisoner in the power of a cruel and vindictive enemy; paraded before all the world-before herself-as a criminal; rudely dragged along by a guard of ruffianly soldiers; disgraced-no, not disgraced, for such treatment could not bring disgrace upon a noble patriot; but in danger of his life!
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
He was a large, squarely-built man, with a most savage expression of countenance, which a bushy beard and shaggy overhanging moustache served successfully to assist; his eyes were shaded by deep, projecting brows, and long eyebrows slanting over them, and increasing their look of piercing sharpness; there was in his whole air and demeanour that certain French air of swaggering bullyism, which ever remained in those who, having risen from the ranks, maintained the look of ruffianly defiance which gave their early character for courage peculiar merit.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)