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.

"Well, indeed I ought, sir, to know them," replied Mogue, "and I believe I do; and talkin' of that, you have often heard of the great robber and rapparee, Shaun Bernha?"

From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

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

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.