Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakehelly
Literary usage of Rakehelly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Criticism of Poetry by Guy Andrew Thompson (1914)
"The rakehelly Rout The chief cause for the debasement of poetry, in the minds of
Elizabethan critics, was to be found in the extensive and growing ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"No breaking of windows or glasses for spight. And spoiling the goods for a
rakehelly prank. .... rakehelly ..."
3. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
""I scorn and spew out," says an old English writer, who has been dead to the
world and to literature for two hundred years—the " rakehelly rout of our ..."
4. The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With by William Wycherley, William Congreve, Leigh Hunt, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1840)
"This lady is a reputed virtue, of good fortune and quality ; I am a rakehelly
rascal not worth a groat ; and without any farther ceremony am going to ..."
5. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
""The child is the picture of his father, and she would endeavor to raise it for
his sake."—Bishop, Life and Adventures, 268 (1744). rakehelly—Intensely bad. ..."
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