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Definition of Scapegraces
1. scapegrace [n] - See also: scapegrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scapegraces
Literary usage of Scapegraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young, John Bartholomew Gough, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1876)
"Brigham Pockets the Soldiers' Pay. — How Proselytes were Made. — scapegraces sent
on Mission. — My Father goes to Europe. — How Missionaries'wives are Left. ..."
2. Wife No. 19: Or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"scapegraces sent on Mission. — My Father goes to Europe. — How Missionaries'
wives are Left. — Collecting funds for the Missionaries. ..."
3. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1864)
"over the military is the most hateful and dangerous. Our military aristocracy—swells
and loungers about town—are hair-brained scapegraces, and hence ..."
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