"Ruffin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ta thee?" said Spinnel Shanks, "Tha ruffin of a dog, I'm nobbut bahn mi raands ageean, Ta see wun John ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright
... His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood, Which he had spilt, and all to rags yrent, Through unadvized rashnesse woxen wood; 300 For of his hands he had no governement, Ne car'd for bloud in his avengement: But when the furious fit was overpast, His cruell facts he often would repent; Yet wilfull man ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... Time to appropriate this Ornament, and Mark of Distinction to the Regal Family. No Person, tho' but indifferently learn'd, needs any Proof that the Gauls wore their Hair long, especially when he calls to mind that of the Poet Claudian, ex lib. in Ruffin. 2. ...
— Franco-Gallia • Francis Hotoman |
