rapparee

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

‘Yes, you rapparee; but didn’t you promise—or didn’t I promise for you, which is all one and the same thing—that you’d pay it all back with your prize-money—and where is it? answer that, Terence O’Brien.’

From Peter Simple by Marryat, Frederick

"Well, indeed I ought, sir, to know them," replied Mogue, "and I believe I do; and talkin' of that, you have often heard of the great robber and rapparee, Shaun Bernha?"

From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James