rapparee

Example Sentences

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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.

Not that, while devouring all the "rapparee" experiences of the father, he had no eye for the daughters, and did not see what was passing around him.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Why, what an ungrateful young rapparee it is, wanting to leave the home of five years like that!”

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.

Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James