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Definition of Rakehells
1. rakehell [n] - See also: rakehell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakehells
Literary usage of Rakehells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland ... Preserved at Belvoir by Charles Manners Rutland, Richard Ward, Robert Campbell, John Horace Round (1889)
"Begins : " All jolly rakehells that sup at the Rose And midnight intrigues are
contriving." Ends : " Little glass bottles and leaking pint pots Are framing ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"But it is not merely this "rabblement" of "rakehells" that brings the prodigal
to ruin. He has an elder twin brother, ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"... rowsey ragged rabblement of rakehells" are amongst his designations for this
class, and his only methods for "reforming the criminal" are the stocks and ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... 'with a company of rakehells ' she was conveyed by water to Richmond, and
thence to "Woodstock. Sir Henry Bedingfield's conduct is said by both Foxe and ..."
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