Impish one

Usage examples of rascal.

Possibly with the idea of interesting us in his favour, he began by saying that you were the greatest rascal in the world.

As he was going in, the rascal looked up and saw me, and began to laugh.

I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.

The cousin laughed openly at his vain boasting, and to avenge himself the rascal told her that he was better than she.

When we were breakfasting he shewed me a letter written by Possano, in which the rascal said that he was ready to abandon proceedings provided that M.

The rascal Bulbul would have had her by guilebut failed, and now would send me to bargain for some obscure reason, which, perhaps, your greater wits can understand.

The rascal Bulbul tempted her with gold, no doubt about itas greedy as he is for commissions and bribes!

The three rascals came to see me one by one, and each tried to get me to give him money unknown to the other two, and each promised that if I would do that, he would get me out of the difficulty.

This might have led to some affectionate passages, but her father came in saying that the rascal was in prison, and that everyone said I was right.

She had almost made up her mind to submit to the operation, but as the rascal had mentioned my name, she wanted me to be present at a dispute between Tadini and the other oculist who came in with the dessert.

The rascal had done well and had sent to Mantua for his mistress, who came with her mother and a very pretty girl of twelve or thirteen.

Syn smiled and promised Cicely that although he could not stop preaching against this rascal, he would at least modify his righteous rage, adding in a more serious tone that perhaps in the near future it might not be necessary to preach upon that vein at all, since already it was evident that the Scarecrow was showing signs of repentance, and that he, as shepherd of the flock, hoped that he might be able to lead one more stray lamb into the fold.

That plume was the signature of Le Corbeau, the bold French rascal who called himself the Crow and claimed the right to peck at those who traveled the night roads north from London.

Le Corbeau, the bold French rascal who called himself the Crow and claimed the right to peck at those who traveled the night roads north from London.

I had the landlord upstairs and did as the rascal had asked me, but mine host told him that he could dispose of it after he had paid for it, and with that he turned his back on him and left the room.