blaggards

It was on a closely allied theme that he had first won his editorial spurs -- the theme of Klinker's "blaggards," who made reformatories necessary.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

According to his yellow-tinged amateur YouTube video (seemingly recorded on a Betamax device preserved from the early 1980s in front of a motley assortment of reading material being balanced on a rickety bookshelf that is mounted on the wall of a faux-wood-paneled den in the Old Batty Cave), Ron advocates reinstating the archaic letters of marque and reprisal, last utilized in the early 19th century, to bring down these bilge-sucking blaggards.

Warren Holstein: Dog the Pirate Hunter??? 2009

No doubt he was thinking of the Nuremberg trials when he invoked the "American values" and the "great many safeguards" the country will extend "to these blaggards."

Michael Smerconish: KSM: Ready For His Closeup? 2009

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards!

Reviewing the Reviews: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' | EW.com 2006

Parsee say, 'Who are the blaggards ye've brought here wid ye?' followed by an unintelligible reply.

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

Saturday and give a talk to them blaggards on that.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

If we legalise assisted suicide, we risk moving towards a blaggards 'charter.

The Guardian World News 2010

-- "oh! we're gintlemen now it seems, an 'not his own blaggards, as we used to be -- Tiper-to'e's vagabones that stood by him -- oh no! Tom, to hell wid you and your gintlemen -- three cheers for Gully Preston!"

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Why, man, they're _the sisters of the little blaggards! _ "

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Dammit, Doc, I'm no saint nor sam-singer and I've done things I hadn't ought like other men, and woke up shamed the next morning, too, but I've got a sister who's a decent good girl as there is anywhere, and by God, sir, I'd _kill_ a man who just looked at her with the dirty eyes of them little soft-mouth blaggards! "

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905