Rugbeian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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He was a strapping big Rugbeian, who had come up with a "reputter," or reputation, as a football player, and had insisted on trying first off for the 'varsity fifteen.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
The Rugbeian was plainly a bore and after dinner Martin fled from the college: he found a new cinema in Broad Street and went in.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
Half-tone illustrations represented young curates, some dapper, some Rugbeian and muscular, some with ascetic faces and large ecstatic eyes, dressed in jackets, in frock-coats, in surplices, in clerical evening dress, in black Norfolk suitings.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
The Rugbeian laughed outright, and Spicer gained time by insulting him while he rummaged his big head for a retort worthy of Bethune; it was worthier of himself when it came.
From The Shadow of a Man by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Clough was, of course, a Rugbeian, and one of Arnold's ablest and most devoted pupils.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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