rapparee

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

‘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

"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony

"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

How him an' his blood-cousin, Tim Moriarty, lay wan night for an' ould rapparee av a landlord, who'd evicted pore Tim out av house an' home.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.