rapparee

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Kendall, Ralph S.

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.

"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.