rapparee
Example Sentences
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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
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
"They were called Rapparees," Mr. Malone says, "from being armed with a half-pike, called by the Irish a rapparee."
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
