How To Use Rascal In A Sentence
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This loveable rascal is probably best known for the Jamaican ska beat that is the signature of much of his song-writing.
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The rascally youths had played a prank on Penguin.
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_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_.
Pushing to the Front
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Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when I read in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on I realize what a creature the human animal is.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him.
Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
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They are indescribably charming, John with his round, open face and close-shaven hair and Leo with his rascal grin and an explosion of curls pulled into a ponytail.
Washington teens John and Leo Manzari have all the right dance moves
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I have been careless and not paid attention, talking too much and letting you get the advantage, you young rascal.
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Maliseet, which open with the obtaining of a gold-dropping horse from an old man because of kindness, the loss of it at an inn at the bands of a rascally landlord, and the recovery of the animal through the generous use of a magic cudgel.
Filipino Popular Tales
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It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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Loca" is hip-hop merengue performed in two languages, with assistance from Dominican rapper El Cata and English rapper Dizzee Rascal, with little appreciable difference between the versions; "Lo Que Más" is one of a handful of doleful ballads; the Pitbull-assisted "Rabiosa" is giddy, rapid-fire Latin pop.
Album review: Shakira, "Sale el Sol"
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For the next thing that was heard of her, and that by a mere chance, was that she was marred to Mynheer van Hunker, 'a rascallion of an old half-bred Dutchman, 'as my hot-tongued sister called him, who had come over to fatten on our misfortunes by buying up the cavaliers' plate and jewels, and lending them money on their estates.
Stray Pearls
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I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship!
The Island Treasure
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Working like beavers, Montcalm's men dragged twenty cannon to a hill commanding the fort, known as "Fort Rascal" because the outfort there was useless to the English.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
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The casual wink from you, the cheery salute from your buddy, the you-rascal-you smiles of recognition from your workmates.
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I hear the old rascal's been causing trouble again.
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If I ever catch the rascal I'll really wallop him!
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Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
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You rascal," said I, "a cudgelling was the upshot of your last.
The Fool Errant
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There was no remedy for what was called by Lord Lovat's friends, the "rascality" of the judges: -- and again this unworthy Highlander was driven from his own country to seek safety in the land wherein his offences had received their pardon.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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In our ordinary talk and fallings out, the most opprobrious and scurrile name we can fasten upon a man, or first give, is to call him base rogue, beggarly rascal, and the like:
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It was in the third scene of the second act; Spiegelberg discoursing with Razmann, observes, "An honest man you may form of windle-straws; but to make a rascal you must have grist: besides, there is a national genius in it, a certain rascal-climate, so to speak.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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But those rascally creatures are smart and agile.
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Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
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`The smiling rascal concealing knife in cloak; The farm barns burning and the thick black smoke.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Stevenson and Kipling have proved its immense popularity, with the whole brood of detective stories and the tales of successful rascality we call "picaresque" Our most popular weekly shows the broad appeal of this class of fiction.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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Although he is a rogue and a rascal, Abagnale is treated with warm-hearted sympathy throughout the film.
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That is Rascal my chorkie, he was whelped on 9/11/08.
At the Obstructed View Café...
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Beautifully coloured are the green touraco and the purple plantain-eater, a rascally bird! who eats some of our finest plantains, and has bitten holes in many a one I thought to get entirely to myself.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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So he told him what had befallen him and added, If I know whither the rascal is gone and where to find the knave, I would pay him out.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Though we have here the register and certificate of the sentence of every one of these wretches, this is no time to take them out or read them; come and ask themselves; they can tell if they choose, and they will, for these fellows take a pleasure in doing and talking about rascalities.
Don Quixote
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She be-knaved, be-rascalled, be-rogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.
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around the rock the ragged rascal ran
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For those kids who would be the next Dizzee Rascal, music isn't the soundtrack to a shopping experience; once again, it feels fresh, newly minted.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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'You rascal!' was the phrase legibly printed on the foreman's incredulous face.
How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
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To mine -- to _mine_, you rascal, you vagabond!" stormed the King.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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Yes, count, and see if the rascals made a fair 'divvy' of it," added the captain.
Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi
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Rascals, and Rob Paparozzi, harmonicist and lead singer of Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Paramus Post
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Any of those "rascalities" would constitute enough reason for the aggrieved party to challenge the perpetrator of the injustice to a duel, OK Coral style, after school.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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The behaviour of this rascally sycophant incensed me so much, that one day, when I was beleaguered by him and his hounds in a farmer's house, where I had found protection, I took aim at him (being an excellent marksman) with a large pebble, which struck out four of his foreteeth, and effectually incapacitated him from doing the office of a clerk.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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It is not contradictory, I believe, to argue at one and the same time that Bush's conception of his prerogatives of office is dictatorial (or, if one prefers, "authoritarian" or "monarchical," which is Bruce Fein's term) AND that he gives no hint of rejecting the most basic norm of American constitutionalism, which is the opportunity to vote the rascals out in an election.
Balkinization
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This latter activity comes courtesy of a controversial religious camp for rascally teen ne'er-do-wells.
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The curs of the street dog his heels, as he goes, And the scurviest rascal may rail at the wight.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
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And the visitor would sheepishly admit both, his rascality and his obedience, by saying: ‘We are sarkari badmashes.’
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It purges the pleasure of sleep and contaminates the cornflakes, leaving a day-long impression that a world run by fools and rascals should be treated with suspicion.
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Herry the louns o 'the laigh countree, [Harry, rascals, low]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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Although he is a rogue and a rascal, Abagnale is treated with warm-hearted sympathy throughout the film.
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That is what dignity does for you, you rascal, that is dignity! ...
The Double
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We were all rascals when we were growing up, I was no angel myself, but what I did have, and still do is respect for my elders and people in authority.
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As a result, liars are passed off as scoundrels or rascals, or even lovable rogues.
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He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
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Although there are many rascals to be thrown out, we can only deal with impending apocalypse by changing ourselves and our piggish habits.
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Lamb, "you old lake poet, you rascally poet, why do you call Voltaire dull?
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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He was often humiliated by the rascals in his town.
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He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
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If he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal.
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‘Goodman-rascal,’ quoth Don Quixote, ‘you garlic stinkard, I shall take you, and bind you to a tree, as naked as your mother brought you forth, and let me not say three thousand and three hundred, but I'll give you six thousand and six hundred, so well laid on that you shall not claw them off at three thousand and three hundred plucks.’
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Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul language from its door, nor see the crumpled furtive figure — some rascal child — that slinks past us down the steps.
In the Days of the Comet
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“You little rascal, what are you doing in those 'secesh' clothes?”
The Life of Hon William F Cody
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I declare Peyton was as scared as that bushy-tailed rascal.
Eliza’s Freedom Road
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You've got me off on a sidetrack, you rascals!
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Some unknown, unprincipled rascal wins a bunch of tickets for the first Test and promptly sells them on e-bay.
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Don't mention the word when hit's 'im' eld the life of my Tom in 'is two' ands, and but for they cruel rocks that battered 'is fore'ead would ha' throttled them rascal pushers same as rattan in tarrier's grip; for my man 'olds there was ne'er a fisticuffer like' im in hall the Jackets.
The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines
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A surprising number of parochial Brit rappers have emerged in its wake, notably Dizzee Rascal, squawking his stories of knife-waving psychosis and urban blight.
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The rascal had the brass to say at once, that he had not seen word or wittens of the lassie for a month, though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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The popular appreciation is that our politicians are scoundrels and rascals and therefore interesting.
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the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt
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Yes, he had lost his fogle, or else some rascally comrade had sneaked it.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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The first thing the little rascal did was to write a withering leader denouncing Mr. Scandril as a "demagogue, the degradation of whose political opinions was only equaled by the disgustfulness of the family connections of which those opinions were the spawn!
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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You know the oily rascal's up to something - but what?
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So what is the proper restraint for your pooch and what is the best way to go about leashing your dog, whether fido is an adult dog who has been on a leash for years or a rascally little puppy that is still chewing on the leash as you try to take him out for his morning walk.
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Some may, indeed, be rascals when out on the town, but the extent of grooms' devotion to their horses often borders on the obsessive.
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The young rascals pursued the "chaw" as far as the
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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I shan't pick up the 'jackanapes' or the 'rascal.'
Dr. Dumany's Wife
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Ezras, who received and negotiated the sale of the stolen goods, and who is as keen a rascal as ever escaped justice, and two noted cracksmen, who had headquarters in the city, and were famous in their day, but who were compelled to withdraw in the midst of their high career, one dying of a malignant fever, the other being killed by a woman.
The Diamond Coterie
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Cavaliere sang and played keyboards for Atlantic recording group The Rascals, which helped build the sound that came to be known as blue-eyed soul.
NPR Topics: News
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Then a voice bawled: "Lay off! I'll kill you, you little rascal!
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An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage -- and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches -- covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation.
Nick of the Woods
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The way he did it brought him under the just accusation of being guilty of every kind of rascality known to politics.
XVI. Reform by Humane Touch
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You are a _deleted deleted deleted deleted_ rascal.
The Nervous Housewife
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Most often I need these very rascals to produce movies for me.
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The advert, to promote his latest single, Dirtee Cash, cements an unique relationship between the artist and www. winkball.com, which has seen WinkBall support Dizzee Rascal and his label mates on their current Dirtee Stank tour (www. dirteestanktour.com).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Because of their boisterous natures and their genteel parentage these rascals are destined to wind up having many exciting adventures together!
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Unfortunate it is that Bigot's astounding depravity has led too many readers and writers of Canadian history to look upon the intendancy of New France as a post held chiefly by rascals.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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Thus, instead of being attended by one servant well mounted, he will have two; and, not being able to purchase or maintain a second horse of value, one of his servants at least is mounted on a hired rascallion.
The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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I would have sooner, I believe, wrought by the side of any rascally redemptioner in the iron mines of the Patapsco than have gone to
Richard Carvel — Volume 01
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So different from that rascal Woods, who treated some of the men as if they were dogs, and allowed many a poor sheep to go shorn to its pen cut and bleeding from overhaste, with never a word of remonstrance.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
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We now know what we all along suspected -- the rajah is a rascal, and we have not only found out where his prahus are hidden, but have them corked up in a bottle.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
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I caught those little/young rascals dressing up in my clothes.
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The Rascal is a tracked vehicle with six double road wheels with rubber tyres on each side.
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William Lambert and Lord Frederick Beauclerk were the original rascals.
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Someone wrote letter to tell bishop that Nebulas Flacon was a koradji and rascal. They wanted to evict him out of the Vyborg City.
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The rascal is greedy as a Badaw and moreover he is a liar, which the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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JUST as the Hopkinsons had finished breakfast the following morning, they were surprised by an early visit from Willis, who seemed to be in a state of unusual excitement; and instead of the congratulations they had expected, he burst out with something like an oath, adding, And the rascal is actually gone – went off while the dancing was going on; the police were waiting for him at the station, but I suppose he had good intelligence, for he got into a steamer, and has not been heard of since.
The Semi-Detached House
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La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm – labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were.
Don Quixote
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Or is it because religion has become the last hiding-place of rascally politicians whose secular disguises have been unmasked by the people?
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The young rascal is a girl in boy's clothes, sir! said the officer who had the culprit in custody.
The Hidden Hand
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Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion.
The Island Treasure
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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My Mother, either under pressure from these 2 rascals or more likely in the middle of some sort of brainstorm, decided to give them a goat instead of giving me my present.
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Twenty pages on Bishop Myriel -- that rather piebald angel who makes the way impossible for any successor by his fantastic and indecent "apostolicism" in living; who tells, _not_ like St. Athanasius, an allowable equivocation to save his valuable self, but a downright lie to save a worthless rascal; and who admits defeat in argument by the stale sophisms of a moribund _conventionnel_ -- might have been tolerable.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Throw out the rascals speaks the more dramatically after decades of unchosen and oppressive regimes.
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Barron, a stag red miniature pincher, was an early favorite pitted against prettier pooches, Rascal, part Norwegian elkhound, and Buddy, an Australian shepherd.
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The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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We will enjoy together of looking at the Korean unlucky bear and the rascal Rabbit, although N times, still knowing cachinnation . Then learn how they walk, again cachinnation .
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It's said that the rascal pesters Sir Malaroy for money- been doing it for years.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter, for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century.
Chapter XXVIII. An Old Friend-A Victim-California Rangers-News from Home-Last Looks
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I think she puts the kid with the mask out front so she can do her evildoing from the comfort of either her Rascal or Wal-Mart Lawn and Garden chair unnoticed.
ORPHANAGES ARE STILL HORROR-FILLED
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In excluding spoilsmen from public office, the reformers were, in a sense, engaged in a negative work: that of ‘keeping the rascals out.’
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He said the latest terascale supercomputing system has several hundred gigaflops of sustained power on internationally accepted benchmarks and storage of over 10 terabytes.
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Their rascality and general dubiousness was so transparent that he could not understand how any one could be taken in by them.
Chapter I
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the rascally rabble
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She isn't married, but she will be as soon as that rascally fiancé of hers gets it in his head to sign her prenup.
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But there is always food for satire; and the French caricaturists, being no longer allowed to hold up to ridicule and reprobation the King and the deputies, have found no lack of subjects for the pencil in the ridicules and rascalities of common life.
The Paris Sketch Book
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That's not to say that our aging pair of (now slightly dowdy) French rascals are going to be pulling their punches at all.
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When the newspaper called them ‘desperate rascals, thieves, robbers, cut-throats, and blacklegs’ the newspaper's editors were not far from the truth.
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In these tales, John may assume the posture of a rogue, naive rascal, or fool when he encounters an oppressive master who reminds him of his limited possibilities on the plantation.
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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His blue ribbon commission has rascals that have screwed over the average Bahamian and enriched themselves beyond belief.
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'You know, I think just about everybody who's ever met that scrawny rascal feels exactly the same way about him.
THE TREASURED ONE
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And please don't talk to me about ‘well bindweed is okay but creeping buttercup is a little rascal’, because we're not on first name terms, the weeds and I.
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Have those dreadful rascals done the dirty on you?
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He shall learn that this kind of rascality is not permitted by the nobles of France.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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And h'yar's the knavery of the thing; sir! the unpronounceable rascality, sir!
Nick of the Woods
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Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion.
The Island Treasure
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It is just a shameless rascally crazy dog broken spine fed by American.
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It only concerns them to aid them as persons in need of help, having regard to their sufferings and not to their rascalities.
Don Quixote
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A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o’ these days: and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to think on’t.
Troilus and Cressida
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Carrie also let me know that using "brained" to mean "hit in the head" dates back to Shakespeare times ( "Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.",
Dinosaur Comics
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I got out of my chaise and went to the prisoner, who was sitting on horseback, and called him, I believe, a rascal or a scoundrel, or something of that sort; he made me no reply
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Now the poet hath undertaken, for their being kicked three or four times a-week about the stage to the gallows, infamously rogued and rascalled, to try what he can do towards making the charter forfeitable, by some extravagancy and disorder of the people, which the authority of the best governed cities have not been able to prevent, sometimes under far less provocations.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
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Whereas, by a little charity and mutual forbearance, things are made to go on pleasantly enough: we may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged — but do we wish to hang him therefore?
Vanity Fair
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Just as we were leaving, the teashop put out a sign reading: Now baking: Yorkshire Rascals.
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We were all rascals when we were growing up, I was no angel myself, but what I did have, and still do is respect for my elders and people in authority.
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We find Giacomo Trotti, the French ambassador in Milan, writing to the Duke of Ferrara a fortnight after Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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We're rascals, and scoundrels, and villains, and knaves.
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As a result, he is ideally equipped to capture the essence of Rome: the loud traffic, fragrant markets, vigorous food and rascally bureaucratic corruption.
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God, master fool, if you do not let me alone, or that you will presume to vex me any more, you shall receive from the best hand I have a mask wherewith to cover your rascally scroundrel face, you paltry shitten varlet.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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They were fit company, '' he added, ` ` for each other, Sir Rashleigh having lost all right to mingle in the society of men of honour; but it was hardly possible two such d--- d rascals should collogue together without mischief to honest people. ''
Rob Roy
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Miles and Jack, on the other hand, are too easy to figure out, lovable cartoons, rascals who are losers by rote.
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Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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These good things would have been accepted had it not been for this rascal of a penny-a-liner, this friend of that other rascal Trevelyan, who had come in the way of their family to destroy the happiness of them all!
He Knew He Was Right
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I saw no signs of the Hillmen, and though we were greeted by a splutter of jezail bullets we were unable to capture any of the rascals.
The Mystery of Cloomber
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And if Agnes failed to show the proper amount of interest, Philippina would poke her in the ribs and exclaim: “You little rascallion, has the cat got your tongue?”
Gänsemännchen. English
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There were also plenty of custom-house folks demanding fees to which they had no right, and sturdy rascals seeking buckshish, and miserable beggars imploring alms.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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Roll Deep were Dizzee Rascal's original crew, and musos and critics seem desperate to love them.
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In the meantime, I had one good night's sleep, feeling safe for the first time in weeks with Ilderim's rascals around me, and next day we just lay up in the temple ruins while one sowar went to scout for Shadman Khan, who was meant to be out stealing horses for us.
Fiancée
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Had I been recognized in that den my life would not have been worth an hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own purposes, and the rascally lascar who runs it has sworn to have vengeance upon me.
Sole Music
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Before he came to us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes -- outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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_ -- "I used to always be a-telling our cap'in they'll do well if they mind Mrs. E, she has the soul of a man and the wits of a king; and it's my belief even if they hadna gotten us back, she'd a outwitted them ere ---- rascallion divildims.
Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
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Rob Anderscal - This "rascal" - as the name implies - is a trouble-maker extraordinaire.
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Becky, too, knew some ladies here and there — French widows, dubious Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill — faugh — what shall we say, we who have moved among some of the finest company of Vanity Fair, of this refuse and sediment of rascals?
Vanity Fair
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Finally, the third: people without religion, accustomed to pillage, to murder, to quarter themselves upon the peasants; a rascalry furious, fanatical, and swarming with prophetesses.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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The entrance to the rock cave is still shown, at the mouth of Kaliuwaa valley, where Kamapuaa's grandmother shut up her chickens at night, and it was for robbing his uncle's henroost that this rascally pig-god was chased away from Oahu.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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She has a fondness for rascally men, a distaste for bossy wives, and a sympathy for anyone who leads with the heart instead of the brain.
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` ` Well, you rascallion, go, mind your duty; this gentleman and I belong to the service; but be sure you look after that shy cock in the slouched hat that sits in the corner of the coach.
The Waverley
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Confoundedly coxy those young rascals will get, if we don't mind," was the general feeling.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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In an admirable phrase Montesquieu encapsulated the moral taste that the student leaders represented and on which they played: “Men, although they are individually rascals, are collectively a most decent lot: they love morality.”
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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The old rascal is still very much alive.
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[Footnote I: Rascally slaves in Greek comedies.] nequius nil est quam egens consili servos, nisi habet multipotens pectus: ubicumque usus siet, pectore expromat suo. nullus frugi esse potest homo, nisi qui et bene et male facere tenet.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights.
The Innocents Abroad
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We had fun, though the definition of 'indie' is clearly interpreted very loosely, taking in Dizzee Rascall sp?
Archive 2010-02-01
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If I ever catch the rascal I'll really wallop him!
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I left the office just after four, picked up a pizza from the local trattoria and headed back out to Stockport in the Little Rascal.
KICK BACK
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Robert De Niro gives an incendiary performance as Johnny Boy, a young rascal with mounting debts and no intention whatsoever of paying them off.
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I've half a mind to ride back and have him out for that rascal "osculation" and the lady unwilling!
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
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a faggot-stick or his sword to the rascal's jobbernowl, give him the gentle lash, or make him cut a caper out at the window, by way of correction.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
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If I ever catch the rascal I'll really wallop him!
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The probability is, that this single experience educated him so far that his next employer would have no occasion to complain of his "rascality;" and I very much doubt if any amount of
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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Here a tall gentleman marched up to him, and addressed him in a certain language, which might be called the freemasonry of flash, and which Paul, though he did not comprehend verbatim, rightly understood to be an inquiry whether he was a thorough rogue and an entire rascal.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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I hope the Committee will not act so unjustly as to turn their backs on all cases because there is 'rascality' in some; because there is rascality in some cases, why should a just cause suffer?
Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap
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However, I have one wafered up in my desk by the hand of the same little rascal.
Dr. Birch and his young friends
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Seems macaroni rascal is MTV's way of expressing the term guido in Japanese.
Phillies Zone
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The courts rapidly lost their power, and the worst people, both Americans and Creoles, practised every kind of rascality with impunity.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
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This latter activity comes courtesy of a controversial religious camp for rascally teen ne'er-do-wells.
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One night a rascally friend and I went into their offices late at night, took the entire library, carried it down to an all-night copying store and copied every one of them.
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Even if independence is off the agenda, Scots should be thinking of voting for the SNP for no other reason than to ‘throw the rascals out’.
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There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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I seemed to catch my audience quite accidentally by using a word tabooed at that time in sporting circles, because it represented the blacklegs of the racecourse, and was used as a nickname for rascaldom.
The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins
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So many patriots are really rascals - you know, last refuge of the scoundrel - nationality is a dangerous thing.
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The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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It was in tavern brawls; one was a rascally cockleman, and the other a rascally oyster-man.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Indeed, madame, this rascal that shares equally in my least faculty is a most pitiful, ignoble rogue! and he has aforetime eked out our common livelihood by such practices as your unsullied imagination could scarcely depicture.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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But most exciting this week is our interview with Ant and Dec, those loveable Geordie rascals who've captured the hearts of the nation.
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Attempts in 1770 to regularize supplies in the hands of a few chosen merchants led to rumours of a ‘famine pact’ devised by rascally ministers to starve the king's subjects.
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Being suspected of "rascality" in this direction, he was arrested and put in jail, but as no evidence could be found against him he was soon released.
The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Auth
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I am not a _budmash_, [Footnote: Rascal.] sahib," he exclaimed proudly.
The Wings of the Morning
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Draw, you rogue, or Ill so carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.
Act II. Scene II. King Lear
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My uncle started at the word rascal; and then recovering himself, replied, "Well, nephew, what is it that you require of Lord Privilege, for I presume this visit is not without a cause?
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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I could not persuade the fellow that he did wrong, or that I would ever prosecute him for poaching — I must desire you will wink hard at the practices of this rascallion, otherwise I shall be plagued with his presents, which cost me more than they are worth. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o 'these days: and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to think on't.
Troilus and Cressida
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Then appears Howel Tightbelly, the miser, who in capital verse, with very considerable glee and exultation, gives an account of his manifold rascalities.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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'Well, you rascallion, go, mind your duty; this gentleman and I belong to the service; but be sure you look after that shy cock in the slouched hat that sits in the corner of the coach.
Waverley
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A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o these days: and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to think ont.
Act V. Scene III. Troilus and Cressida
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He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
