rapparee

Example Sentences

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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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.

‘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 Marryat, Frederick

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