Sentences with phrase «local ruffian»

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

Last month, we shared with you the tale of a heroic law student who came to the aid of a Biglaw partner who was involved in a violent altercation with some local ruffians.

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And it bounces between the kooky, wacky dream girl, her strict, posh mum who doesn't understand her daughter's true primal soul and the erotic romance that the kooky, wacky dream girl nurtures with a local swaggering ruffian who may, or may not, be the infamous eponymous serial killer (flag!