rapparee

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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 Ainsworth, William Harrison

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.

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 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