And as you said about Ruffian, you know, the actually surgery is, in most cases, not the issue with saving horses.

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In the new fairness, she is treated like everyone else, without respect, like the loud ruffian and the vulgar girl on the cell phone.

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Combined with a veneer of South Side Chicago ruffian that he wears when it serves his purposes, Ellison attains an aura of power and danger.

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Allen is the ruffian roustabout who left school at age 15 to support his family, moved to Alaska to work on the oil platforms, and eventually built his own business becoming the state's largest private employer and making a fortune.

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But Mr Fraser was a devoted son of the borders, born in Carlisle and writing both fact and fiction about the ruffian-reivers and cattle-stealers of the region: men who, in their shameless venturing and whoring and disrespect for law, were quite a lot like old Flashy, except that they were brave.

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