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  • He was then wrapped in a coarse scarlet wrap-rascal, and placed in a litter.

    Satyricon 2007

  • His dress was also that of a horse-dealer — a close-buttoned jockey-coat, or wrap-rascal, as it was then termed, with huge metal buttons, coarse blue upper stockings, called boot-hose because supplying the place of boots, and a slouched hat.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • He was then wrapped in a coarse scarlet wrap-rascal, and placed in a litter.

    The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • As I followed Charles in, I caught a glimpse of the back of a man in a heavy mulberry wrap-rascal, guarded with tarnished silver braid at the cuffs and pockets, who was hastily leaving the Secretary's room by an inner door.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • At the top of the slope, wrap-rascal turned round.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • He was then wrapped in a coarse scarlet wrap-rascal, and placed in a litter.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Here, you must put on this suit of wrap-rascal, and these here knee-boots, or you'll be cold to the bone, 'specially if you're sick.

    Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

  • To prove this I called for my wrap-rascal and cane, and for a fellow with a flambeau to light me.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909

  • To prove this I called for my wrap-rascal and cane, and for a fellow with a flambeau to light me.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Fifty and five minutes had been registered by the French clock, when the rattle of wheels and the clatter of hoofs sounded below, and Charles Fox panted up the stairs, muffled in a huge wrap-rascal.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

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