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Example sentences for "rascal"

Lexicographically close words:
rarity; raro; rary; ras; rasa; rascalities; rascality; rascally; rascals; rasch
  1. Sanchio: Come, let's go: This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies Will laugh at him?

  2. That rascal Ben--you remember Ben of the North Road?

  3. The rascal should have stopped the Duke of Marlborough's coach and held it till I came up with my fellows.

  4. Simon," he called, loudly, "does that rascal intend to spin out his dying interminably?

  5. You were merely endeavoring to serve your beloved Gaston and the Duke of Ormskirk when you hanged the rascal who had impudently stolen the woman intended to cement their friendship!

  6. It was tactful of the small rascal not to allude to that crowning piece of stupidity: I appreciate his forbearance.

  7. That rascal Punshon made some difficulty over admitting me; you might have taken him for a sentinel, with Stornoway in a state of siege.

  8. And now be off with you to Holles--the rascal is dying, they tell me.

  9. There is not an enormous difference between me and the tattered rascal of Chepe, for we both stare longingly at what we most desire.

  10. The lesser rascal rose from the prostrate woman.

  11. The school of rehabilitations has led us to see no difference between a rascal and an honest man.

  12. I see that that rascal Bouilhet has betrayed me; he promised me to copy the Marengo letter in a feigned hand to see if you would be taken in by it.

  13. At this sight he was confounded and said, "This is none other than he, the rascal Hunchback!

  14. It was only the physical strength which appeared to have departed; but that was quite sufficient to make my heart bleed for the dear rascal who had cost me every tie I valued but the tie between us two.

  15. O think of the curses that Ben bestowed on his dear friend Collins, for bringing him in such a scrape; and learn that an idle, drinking rascal has no friends.

  16. TITLE was unanimously scouted: and in place of a pension the rascal had like to have got a prison, for daring thus to trump up a vile discovery that would have robbed the world of one its greatest comforts.

  17. I was for going ahead the day we missed you, but that big-headed little rascal insisted on hunting for you after seeing you leave the wreck.

  18. That is, of course, if we failed to prove that Thompson was the rascal Jim had told us he was.

  19. I rose from my chair, and after giving the impudent pederast a box on the ear I asked the mother with what intentions she had brought the young rascal to my house.

  20. It will be difficult to pitch on the right man," I answered, "the rascal has pushed so many worthy people to extremities that he must have a great many thrashings owing him.

  21. The rascal was much perturbed at the result of his officiousness, and asked Therese to plead for him; but, like a sensible woman, she told him that his master was the best judge of the value of his services.

  22. Next morning I sent Costa to ask him to call on me, but the rascal sent back word that he was not coming, and if the Corticelli did not like his theatre she might try another.

  23. At last I discovered that there was no help for it, and I paid a second time, laughing at the clever rascal who had taken me in so thoroughly.

  24. I am even told the incorrigible rascal has mortgaged the legacy he pretends to expect from me!

  25. I gave the rascal half a sovereign for his humor, and never saw his face again.

  26. In serving me, this rascal of a Frederic has broken a cup, true Japan, upon my honour--the rogue does nothing else.

  27. But somehow it generally happened, and how of course I can't tell, that any man who listened to the advice of rascal No.

  28. Serve him right, too, if he is the rascal you suppose him; or if he got aboard his ship he saw enough of us to know that we should prove rather a tough morsel, should he attempt to swallow us.

  29. Had the boat with the rascal Sandgate been swamped?

  30. It's a true saying, that one rascal makes many; and so it was in this case.

  31. It was, indeed, provoking to see the rascal escaping before our very sight.

  32. The rascal found we were too tough a morsel to swallow, so thought he had better let us alone at once," said Hearty.

  33. I have sometimes been tempted to make a break for liberty, and have thought that if I could once get the rascal on the field, with my old pistols, I would settle with him which of us is the master.

  34. A bad beginning," echoed Adams, "to give a well-deserved blow to as great a rascal as ever walked?

  35. I meant to be revenged on that rascal Hulot.

  36. She too had seen Jenny Cadine; but instead of feeling a pang when she saw how pretty she was, she said to herself, "That rascal Hector must think himself very lucky.

  37. As soon as the professor had recovered his breath, exhausted by his exertions, he said, "The old reprobate, the rascal has cheated us!

  38. Surely nothing, thought the captain, will convince the old rascal now; and he moved off in disgust.

  39. Servadac, waiting, but inclined to kick the old rascal out of his sight.

  40. As soon as ever the old rascal finds that there are no more Arabs or Algerians for him to fleece, he will be ready enough to transact a little business with us.

  41. That is doubtless the best method in all ordinary cases; but the rascal whom we were expecting to pass this way to-night is too cunning to be caught at his work.

  42. This bold speech fairly took the rascal out of himself.

  43. But I really believe," said his lordship, "that our rascal is the most honest fellow in the commissariat department.

  44. If the cowardly rascal will not come forward and lodge a complaint," said Lord Strathern, "what the devil can we do?

  45. Oh, he is known to be a notorious rascal for enticing away, and concealing slaves; he'll get himself into trouble yet, the slaveholders are on the look out for him.

  46. Another said, "Who would have thought that rascal was so 'cute?

  47. As if to insinuate that a man must be either a rascal or a fool until he is thirty, just as he must be either a fool or a physician after he is forty.

  48. You commit a rascal to prison because he merits transportation, but by the time he comes out he merits a halter.

  49. It may be more prudent to remove a rascal than a pauper.

  50. And he was the sort of rascal that one is content not to investigate, but observe at the greatest possible distance.

  51. He was a rascal at the first glance, and could not be anything else.

  52. Davis still demurred, but it was rather with the disciplined resistance of a well-trained rascal than with the ardor of a strong conviction.

  53. The rascal is afraid that I shall meet the marquis there.

  54. I made too much noise; the rascal heard me and ran off.

  55. Mercy, monsieur, you will do well, and who knows whether he's not acquainted with the rascal who has stolen your darling.

  56. The little one is abducted; this rascal of a Touquet is in connivance with the marquis, I am certain.

  57. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been.

  58. There cannot be much doubt that where one graphic rascal was found out, ten escaped.

  59. They have not only to counteract the machinations of every sort of rascal whose only means of existence is avowed rascality, but to clear up family mysteries, the investigation of which demands the utmost delicacy and tact.

  60. They both ultimately escaped to America; and some years afterwards I learned through an unexpected channel that the canting, specious old rascal was at length getting his deserts in the establishment of Sing-Sing.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rascal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bastard; buffoon; bugger; devil; elf; enervated; heel; hood; hoodlum; joker; knave; limb; lowlife; malefactor; minx; mischief; miscreant; monkey; pixie; rake; rapscallion; rascal; reprobate; ribald; rogue; rowdy; ruffian; scalawag; scamp; scapegrace; scoundrel; shyster; sneak; villain; wag; wastrel; wretch