He faces being beaten back into his old life, or beating the deeply prejudiced system that even in apparently more enlightened times, never expects, or wants, an unruly, desensitised ruffian to transform into a transgressive, inspirational thinker.
As for the woman who went to see her football team in the Eternal City and took a beating from the local police, she is Carly Lyes from Rusholme (though not a ruffian, if you know the old Smiths song) and, when United did eventually get in contact, it was not in the circumstances you might imagine.
As a 19-year-old, fair-haired ruffian from the Warsaw district of Czerniaków, Kazik did not look Jewish.
An attempt to reconcile the reformists and the revolutionaries became hopeless by 1900: Sun was slighted as a secret-society ruffian, while the reformists were more influential among the Chinese in Japan and the Japanese.
A local ruffian jogs your arm and spills red wine over the lady's dress.
Vertbaudet Ski Boots: £17.25, vertbaudet.co.uk The rock-solid soles and toes may not suit all kids, but if your young ruffian loves nothing more than to kick his way through every snowdrift then they're a bargain.
Nowadays, it has a certain ruffian charm with hawkers trying to tempt kids and honeymooners with sweets, helium balloons, and horse and carriage rides.
Ransdell's supporters condemned Long as, among other things, a "little snivelling demagogue," a "blasphemer, a ruffian, and a cad," a "liar, a briber, an embezzler of the people's money," and a "counterfeit Mussolini".
Respectable young women, Mackay declared, would rather party with flappers and their ruffian boyfriends in dark night clubs than pretend to live the superficially glossy, but, in reality, exceedingly dull social lives their parents prescribed for them.
In his run-down boarding house, he's threatened by a ruffian, who says, on cue, "You think you're better than me?" Edwards — in a surprise that is no surprise — knocks out his assailant, demonstrating his virility.
She turned to Tennessee and said, "Aren't you going to defend me, darling, against this ruffian?" I said I was going back to the hotel, and that anything I found I was going to flush down the toilet.
