What they earned they had to spend carefully or guard carefully, for the rascaldom of business was everywhere seeking to give nothing for something. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
And contrives the topmost place of the rascaldom to hold? ❋ Unknown (2000)
I think that, in thc energy of his speaking, a touch of true passion had come upon him; that he had forgotten his rascaldom, and his need of her money, and that he was punishing her with his whole power of his vengeance for the treatment which he had received from her. ❋ Unknown (1993)
I found the city proclaimed in a state of siege and filled with all the rascaldom and ruffiandom of Tripoli and Smyrna, who held the respectable portion of the community in terror, so long as they were quartered there. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
It is probable that there never was in the history of the world a city so crammed with every sample of the tribes of rascaldom as ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
Gad, sir, you did right well in defending his goods; and I promise myself if ever I lay hands on that villain Peloti he shall smart for that piece of rascaldom and many more. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
However, to console you as to the state of the Republic, rascaldom is not as cheerful and exultant in its victory as the disloyal hoped after the infliction of such a wound upon the Republic. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
For Del Pinzo (easily recognized among the lesser lights of rascaldom) with his followers, after their first angry shouts, leaped for their horses. ❋ Willard F. Baker (N/A)
The muster brought together a grand variety of rascaldom, from Campeachy in the west to Trinidad in the east. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
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. ❋ Brampton, Henry H (1904)
I felt that there were little subtleties of rascaldom, little touches of criminality, that ❋ Unknown (1893)
"The Hill," where jovial rascaldom, usually swarmed, looking out for stray overcoats and the lids of luncheon dishes left unprotected on carriages. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
For what will there be left to us untouched in the Republic, what will remain of your authority and freedom, when Rullus, and those whom you fear much more than Rullus, [169] with this band of ready knaves, with all the rascaldom of Rome, laden with gold and silver, shall have seized on Capua and all the cities round? ❋ Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 (1881)
Is it my fault if, after mixing themselves up with rascaldom, they are betrayed and made fools of? ❋ John Morley (1880)
And then, is it my fault if they mix with rascaldom? ❋ John Morley (1880)
Peak's coolness might be the audacity of rascaldom; he preferred to understand it so; but it _might_ have nothing to do with baseness. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Such rascaldom exists in all classes, and not least in the class of the cultivated and refined. ❋ Hutton, Richard (1878)
It is not the want of instruction, it is the rascaldom, i.e. the violent esprit de corps of a selfish class, which “naturally leads” to violent remedies. ❋ Hutton, Richard (1878)
Forty or fifty consummate scoundrels work in concert; and it often happens that even the betting-men are seized, raised from the ground, and shaken until their money falls and is scrambled for by eager rascaldom. ❋ James Runciman (1871)
