rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
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 MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
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.
"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
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony
