rapparee

Example Sentences

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“And her to come of decent folk down there by Killibegs,” he exclaimed in opening the matter; “no rapparees out of Connemara—but O’Neil’s blood to a man, both Bridget and all her kindred before her!”

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The rapparees knew they had no chance of breaking into the house, so defended, and, when Walter ceased, each man slunk away in the darkness.

From Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

From this branch of good-for-nothing knowledge, his studies, by an easy transition, extended to the histories of robbers, pirates, smugglers, and the whole race of Irish rogues and rapparees.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

Yonder were the hills and bogs of Kerry—lawless, impenetrable, abominable—a realm of Tories and rapparees.

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John

Every one keeps from it; the very rapparees, and robbers of every description, would take the shelter of a cleft or cave rather than come into it.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William