"Rascally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over accounts, and balance income and expenditure; and while his rascally ministers pretend to have everything very exact, they have forty thousand ways of cheating him, and take good care ...
— Hindoo Tales - Or, The Adventures of Ten Princes • Translated by P. W. Jacob
... me such rascally tricks! There is no telling what he has done! Books can be doctored to ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... that you have security. She has rejected you; and in order that you may be revenged, or that you may have some further hold upon her,—that she may be in some sort within your power, you have contrived this rascally pettifogging way of obtaining power over her income. The money shall be repaid at once, with any interest that can be due; and if I find you interfering ...
— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope
... gambling for liquor—worked itself upon him, that he could not suffer a single day to pass without indulging in it. Defeat of any kind was a thing he could never think of; but for a Maguire—one of the great Fermanagh Maguires—to be beaten at a rascally game of Spoil Five, was not to be endured; the matter was impossible, unless by foul play, and as there was only one method of treating those who could stoop to the practice of foul play, why he seldom lost any time in adopting it. This was ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... distinguished position in society so as to go and come from Richmond and act as spy and carry letters between rebel agents. I knew this and told Olcott of it, who put a stop to her treason. I also learned that a rascally contractor had defrauded Government with adulterated chemicals. ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
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