rapparee

Example Sentences

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But—if that's how you're going to take it, you foul-mouthed old rapparee!

From Project Gutenberg

Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.

From Project Gutenberg

Rapparee, rap-ar-ē′, n. a wild Irish plunderer: a vagabond.

From Project Gutenberg

And even as they knelt, a wild-eyed rapparee came pounding up with the news that a great force of English was at Cashel, a few miles away; so Red Hugh had to flee with his men over the hills to the westward, to die a year later, poisoned by a man he thought his friend.

From Project Gutenberg

No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive