rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
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 Charles James Lever
‘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 Frederick Marryat
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
