"Ruck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to strip off his clothes, and to fold them along the floor of the grave. When he had apparently made all ready, he stooped down again and smoothed out a ruck, lest its discomfort should irk ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson
... later the ruck poured into the plaza and made for Rosendo's house. Don Mario, holding his cane aloft like a sword, was at their head. Raging with disappointment at not finding the fugitives in the house, they ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... spring, Lad had cleared the ground and was over the closed tonneau door and amid a ruck of luggage and rugs. The rear seat was filled by a steamer-trunk, strapped tightly in place there. And the bottom of the car was annoyingly crowded by bumpy bags and ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... standards. But they're necessary for the common ruck. Anybody who is anything can just be himself and ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... man shot out of the ruck and away, scampering furiously with the shrugged shoulders and ducked head of one ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
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