Scapegrace

Poor old garrulous fool; he little knew that the deformed, but strong and vigorous man that asked him of this companion of his youth was that very "scapegrace" himself transformed, and with age held back from him by a miracle. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)

There, in this scapegrace-scapegoat, all the harms of the village-world found a refuge, were exercised there month after month, until the time came 20 years later for them to be released at large again in the next inferno to be wrought by adult society. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No wonder he got angry when she called him a scapegrace. ❋ Deborah Gonzales (2011)

And you decided you were going to put aside your scapegrace ways and trot over here to make her your wife. ❋ Deborah Gonzales (2011)

Meanwhile, we can all be grateful that we are not his wife ("a page in my life which once had writing on it has become absolutely blank," he wrote in 1863) or his scapegrace son, Alfred (dispatched to a sheep station in New South Wales in 1865 and never seen again), but only his admiring readers. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

There is a surprise visit, on a dark and stormy night, from Elizabeth's semi-hysterical and least-favorite sister, Lydia, who shrieks out a tale of misadventure in the nearby forest involving her scapegrace husband, the notorious Mr. Wickham. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

Isn't He Something movingly shows how the Mizner mama dotes on her scapegrace son. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even marriage to an irresponsible scapegrace like him who gambles his way through London to avoid doing anything constructive with his time. ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)

Barney's Version by Richard Lewis, a saga about a charming scapegrace, is far meatier. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How could a woman whose business acumen was legendary hand over her business to a scapegrace? ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)

"It was a pleasure when I lived in England to feel I belonged to a tradition of scapegrace heirs," he said in 1991. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Instead he went off to play cards and drink with that scapegrace Masters.” ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)

The French did have a way of producing scapegrace poets, didn't they, from Villon to Rimbaud. ❋ Peter Rozovsky (2010)

Only when he had her melting in his arms did he draw back to murmur, “I daresay any ‘sensible woman’ would find advantages to being married to such an ‘irresponsible scapegrace.’” ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)

Not an irresponsible scapegrace who gambles his way through London to avoid doing anything constructive with his time. ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)

“Or perhaps after you boasted of being every bit the scapegrace I accused you of being.” ❋ Sabrina Jeffries (2010)