It is true, the fellow who gave this all hail thrust his tongue in his cheek to some scapegraces like himself; but as the bonnet maker did not see this byplay, he generously threw him a silver penny to encourage his respect for martialists. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Our boys coming from school give themselves such airs, the young scapegraces! our girls, going to parties, are so tricked out by fond mammas — a social history of London in the middle of the nineteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Did I know of a boy who pretended to such a character, I would forbid my scapegraces to keep company with him. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Besides convicts and assigned servants whom we transported to our colonies, we discharged on their shores scapegraces and younger sons, for whom dissipation, despair, and bailiffs made the old country uninhabitable. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In truth, he began upon this way early: of all the violent, daring, disobedient scapegraces that ever caused an affectionate parent pain, he was certainly the most incorrigible; there was no beating him, or coaxing him, or taming him. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Here were the flow of soul and of stout, long pipes, long yarns, and tolerably long credits; and the humble scapegraces of the town resorted thither for the pleasures of a club-life, and often revelled deep into the small hours of the morning. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mr. Hlopakov knows how to gain the favour of rich scapegraces from Petersburg; smokes, drinks, and plays cards with them; calls them by their Christian names. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Bold Lions included six of the most raffish young scapegraces of Araminta Station. ❋ Vance, Jack, 1916- (1988)
Forty young scapegraces expressed their thanks to the "sorrowful wolf" in their different ways before second lesson. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
But the lower-fourth was just now an overgrown form, too large for any one man to attend to properly, and consequently the elysium or ideal form of the young scapegraces who formed the staple of it. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
He was of pure white, and the scapegraces wished a variegated hue. ❋ Emily Mayer Higgins (N/A)
There were scapegraces, bad boys, rogues, mercenaries, and schemers; and perhaps it is entirely logical that the winning natural loveliness of this place should have lured to her men who were not of the caliber to face more exposed, less fertile sections, and men to whom beauty made an especial appeal. ❋ Agnes Rothery (N/A)
Looking back now after five years of readjustment and metamorphosis, I marvel at the cool philosophy with which two adventurous young scapegraces settled the question of a little lad's unconventional birth. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
But the life _was_ dull; when he sought out his former companions, the village scapegraces, he found that there had been a grand clear out of them; it was as if the parish had taken a moral purgative. ❋ Lewis Hough (N/A)
Tip and Leon will be going to the Reform School inside of a few days, after they've had their trial before the Justice; and the town will be well rid of a pair of scapegraces. ❋ Donald Ferguson (N/A)
This may be relied on, that the great inducement of young scapegraces of fashion to the committal of their diurnal and nocturnal outrages upon propriety, is the mischievous gratification they derive from the awkward imitation of their inferiors; and the most effectual method of bringing these aristocratic pranks into disrepute, will be, to treat them as merely vulgar outrages, and punish the perpetrators accordingly. ❋ Various (N/A)
One alcove contained the violinist and dancing-master, giving lessons to several scapegraces in the _terpsichorean_ art; in another was the letter-writer, laboriously adorning a sheet with cupids, hearts, flames, and arrows, while a love-lorn booby knelt beside him, dictating a message to his mistress. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Kingsleigh, Nick at the head of a band of half a dozen young scapegraces clad in black masks and huge hats, and armed with old pistols purloined from the historic gun-room of the old Hall! ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)
California, fourth and fifth sons, remittance men, family scapegraces who had been banished to the farthest frontier by relatives who regarded California as beyond the reach of gossip, and almost beyond the reach of letters. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
