His brilliance raised him above the ruck.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Today he was great, after first quarter even in ruck duel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

"The ruck is my spot with a little time up forward," he told Cats TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFL Latest News] Reference

What lifts Chandler above the ruck is the exquisiteness of his prose—economical yet flexible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

He can keeping doing so even after the referee has called "ruck".    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

You'll be left in the ruck at the end, my young dandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892] Reference

Out of the drifting ruck swam the body of Throckmartin!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

Wouldn't want that backing you up in a ruck, would you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]

Small waves broke apart on it, churning up a ruck of spume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

Moving about in the free of the air and mixing with the ruck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Whooeee, with Karen Thurman and Bill Nelson ensconced -- rots o 'ruck!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Kall's recent "How to Erode and Destroy Democracy"] Reference

Soon after this a ruck of men left the club, and then Phineas rose to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Redux] Reference

He dribbled through the ruck of his opponents until he saw Bourne upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

Erzerum, and found some way of getting mixed up in the ruck of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

First of all, some of the ruck sacks -- that term is a backpack in civilian talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference

Then Tony went off with his hounds, and Jonathan, mounting his horse, followed with the ruck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

The ruck of passengers, busy, with their babies and their bundles, had not noticed the affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

You have mildly obeyed the law which rules the ruck of men; from which I desired to protect you.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Marriage Contract] Reference

Yet on June 28th 1969, it seemed only like another sixties ruck in the muck against corrupt cops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The Stonewall Riots Haven't Stopped - They've Gone Global] Reference

One of Leicester's tries came after they robbed us at a ruck and there were a number of turnovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wasps and Leicester show how to get those turnstiles moving] Reference

She could just see the neat ruck above his knees where he had pulled his trousers up, and thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Let] Reference

At the centre of the problem was his interpretation of lineout rules as well as the ruck and maul situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They shrugged, embarrassed, neither of them willing to be the first to get into a ruck with three angry women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

Fortunately just about then the sled on which the boys and old Andy fought, came through the ruck of the struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

Dillon pushed through the ruck of bodies, passing Jimmy and Steve at the bar, frantically signalling to get served.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

Without boasting, he thought he was better equipped, both by aptitude and training, than the ruck of colonial practitioners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

As regards stings, the nettle is one of the best protected plants; as regards flower and fruit, it is merely one of the ruck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

It seemed to her that the one purpose of a personality like his was its expression -- otherwise one might as well be of the ruck.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference

So olff for his topheetuck the ruck made raid, aslick aslegs would run; and he ankered on his hunkers with the belly belly prest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

A green suit humped up from the ruck, the huge helmet swinging loweringly towards him, the visor up and the face­plate swung open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Stars]

After any specialty of this sort had been disposed of, the ruck of presentees, standing like a lot of school-boys in a long row, were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

With a feeling of distinction we stalked out of the ordinary ruck of passengers and followed the lieutenant to the station restaurant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

I noticed that he was less tall than me, and must once have had a spare frame, though he looked as if he could handle himself in a ruck.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]