The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
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I loved leapfrog, walking on my hands, other ad hoc rough-and-tumble stuff when I was kid, but if I tried it now I think I'd put my back out.
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An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight.
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[To Sonny] When you look in a mirror, you see this rough-and-tumble old-school cowboy. Doesn't take orders, goes his own way, huh? A lone wolf. Well, I have news for you: Formula One is a team sport. It always was.
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