rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony
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.
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.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
