"Spalpeen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spoke him fairly, thin talked to him sevarely, An' thin he cursed him squarely to the glory av the Lord: — "Divil take the ass that bred you, and the greater ass that fed you — Divil go wid you, ye spalpeen!" an' the ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... an' giv' him a bow an' a scrape. 'Is it yerself would insinse me into the rudiments o' polite larnin'?' says I. Thin I looked him straight into the white iv his eye, an' give him the length o' my tongue. Me blood was up whin I seen this spalpeen wid his dirty set o' vagabones waitin' to murther me if they ketched me unbeknownst. 'Michael Hegarty,' says I, 'where did ye scour up yer thievin' set o' rag-heaps?' says I. 'Ye'd bate me wid blackthorns, would ye? Come on, you and your dirty thribe, till I put sivin shots ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... take that, ye murtherin spalpeen!" said the now thoroughly exasperated musician, dashing his own instrument in the direction of ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens
... divil, hould still while I wash ye. Ah! but it's you, Teddy, you rogue. Arrah, now, Mike, ye spalpeen, don't be mixing ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... a dacent woman could do wid a drunken baste about the place like the lahst coachman. O Misther Payterson, it would make yer heart bleed to see the way the spalpeen cut up a-Saturday! But Misther Todd discharged 'im the same avenin', widout a characther, bad 'cess to 'im, an' we 've had no coachman sence at all, at all. An' it ...
— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt
... make the landlord pay, you'd ask? Because the spalpeen had it in writing from him when the Bill was passed that if he put on a new roof to keep the wet off a dying child he should never enforce the terms of the Act against him.... Didn't I vote against the Act because of the very clause allowing ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... spalpeen!" he shouted. The criminal answered by viciously hurling the lantern into the face of his assailant, and in the act, the mask somehow or other was disarranged and slipped from its place. It was only a passing glimpse that Mike caught of him, but it identified him as one of the young men ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis |
