5 sentences with “thugs”

A few days later, a group of thugs gathered in front of her house.

Fascist politicians ran for the Italian parliament while their gangs of thugs terrorised the opposition.

The "knights" were often little more than thugs who had the distinction of a minor noble title and the ability to afford arms and armour.

"As things now stand," Hammond wrote, "he [Hampton] is a convicted scoundrel who, not having the courage to redress his own wrongs, set thugs to do it for him..... To challenge me [to a duel] would be to throw himself on my mercy because he knows I am not obliged to meet him [for a duel]".

The fascists organised themselves into paramilitary units of thugs known as the Blackshirts (after their party-issued uniforms) and engaged in open street fighting against the Communists, breaking strikes, attacking Communist leaders, destroying Communist newspaper offices and intimidating voters in Communist-leaning neighbourhoods and communities.