How To Use Rakehell In A Sentence
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I took my half-day on Wednesday, and naturally on that day the king and his bosom friend, the known rakehell George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, attended the early performance.
Exit the Actress
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Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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He ingratiates himself into the life of the rich rakehell, emulating his actions, his speech, his body language.
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Finney was a young and rambunctious British actor, playing a young and exceedingly virile rakehell.
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I had rather be one of your Rakehells: for, look ye, a Man may swear and stare, or so; break Windows, and Drawers Heads, or so; unrig a needy Whore, and yet keep one's Estate: but should I turn Wit, 'twere impossible; for a Wit with an Estate is like a Prisoner among the
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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He was eighteen, and a rakehell, and the disparity between his character and his appearance is a familiar failure of fit that has come to give beauty a bad name.
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An hour at Brooks', in the company of the rakehells, proved to be more than I could endure.
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Farnol's usual spunky heroine is on the run from the rakehell and drunkard Lord Barrasdale, who would marry her by force to claim her lands.
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If an infamous rakehell like Lord Braunfield could undergo such a remarkable and genuine reformation, surely there was hope for the likes of Lord Ashbourne?