rapparee
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"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 William Carleton
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 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
How him an' his blood-cousin, Tim Moriarty, lay wan night for an' ould rapparee av a landlord, who'd evicted pore Tim out av house an' home.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
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 Sir Walter Scott
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