scapegrace

• “Poor old garrulous fool; he little knew that the deformed, but strong and vigorous man that asked him of this companion of his youth was that very "scapegrace" himself transformed, and with age held back from him by a miracle.”

  A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa

• “There is a surprise visit, on a dark and stormy night, from Elizabeth's semi-hysterical and least-favorite sister, Lydia, who shrieks out a tale of misadventure in the nearby forest involving her scapegrace husband, the notorious Mr. Wickham.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mr. & Mrs. Darcy To the Rescue

• “And you decided you were going to put aside your scapegrace ways and trot over here to make her your wife.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

• “No wonder he got angry when she called him a scapegrace.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

• “Isn't He Something movingly shows how the Mizner mama dotes on her scapegrace son.”

  The Guardian: Road Show – review

• “There, in this scapegrace-scapegoat, all the harms of the village-world found a refuge, were exercised there month after month, until the time came 20 years later for them to be released at large again in the next inferno to be wrought by adult society.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Just William and the ghosts of war

• “Meanwhile, we can all be grateful that we are not his wife ("a page in my life which once had writing on it has become absolutely blank," he wrote in 1863) or his scapegrace son, Alfred (dispatched to a sheep station in New South Wales in 1865 and never seen again), but only his admiring readers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Snapshots of 'Boz'

• “It was a pleasure when I lived in England to feel I belonged to a tradition of scapegrace heirs," he said in 1991.”

  The Washington Post: Ben Sonnenberg, founder of Grand Street literary magazine, dies at 73

• “The French did have a way of producing scapegrace poets, didn't they, from Villon to Rimbaud.”

  More prizes for Peter Temple's "Truth"?

• ““Instead he went off to play cards and drink with that scapegrace Masters.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Hellion in Her Bed

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