rapparee

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This rapparee promised him mountains of wealth, and an English company was found to advance large sums of money—I fear on Sir Arthur's guarantee.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

An advocate for absolute monarchy and church power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

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

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

I knew ut—I felt ut at th' toime—that shtinkin' rapparee av a hobo was lyin'—whin he said he did not renumber a harse bein' brought back.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.