During the first half of the century in a rough-and-tumble colony, physical aggressiveness turned out to be a real asset.
It demonstrated its capacities for political rough-and-tumble in the early days of its reformation in the 1560s and early 1570s.
If a pain expression communicates to conspecifics, then perhaps it arose not during threat or trauma but as a means of keeping rough-and-tumble play from becoming dangerous.
Having a general criminal prohibition against insult may make more sense in a highlyordered society with well-established patterns of deference and civility than in a more loosely organized, rough-and-tumble society.
Furthermore, certain emotional states are independent of the occurrence of rewards or punishments, for instance, many moods and the joys of young animals that underlie rough-and-tumble play.
We must at all costs have a good rough-and-tumble force on the frontier, and an armed gendarmerie, with modern equipment, for the plains.
But the men who did the rough-and-tumble work and the dangerous work are living in the workhouse and are in a condition of penury.
There was a rough-and-tumble and chairs were broken, the audience standing on tiptoe to watch the proceedings.
