roguish

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Roguish fortune-hunter Nathan Drake returned for his fourth adventure this year, setting out to discover the lost treasure of pirate captain Henry Avery – while also saving his troubled marriage to fellow adventurer, Elena.

From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2016

Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the goat-glands man, The Social History of Bourbon and The Old Country Store.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week at Arlington Park a Coughlin-owned filly named Roguish Girl won a race.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow man keep exciting company in the works of this remarkable German playwright.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roguish glances, sidelong, sweet, What is Baby doing?

From Nestlings A Collection of Poems by Weller, Ella Fraser