rapparee
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Denis Ryan—th' ould rapparee, he wint afther us harrd—in that last case.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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