Looking for sentences and phrases with the word scapegrace? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Dave Nash showed up in town, a stranger in a bad way, having a three-week bender with the local scapegrace, Bill Schell.
And Julie's roistering scapegrace of a brother, Tony, could be no one other than John Barrymore.
Tom Jones probably prompted Richardson to offer the virtuous hero, Grandison, as a response to Fielding's scapegrace.
Although Byron had cultivated a reputation as a fighter and scapegrace at Harrow, he could not allow his former tutor, a mere commoner, to define him.
Other words of this type are daredevil, scapegrace, and scarecrow.
They persisted in the belief that the fellow they were after was a shamefaced scapegrace whose tactics would be studiedly underhanded, and that he was bent on pulling the wool over their eyes.
Examples from Classical Literature
In five minutes' time the chaise was ready, and this good scapegrace in his saddle.
He was no scapegrace or scallywag such as you might find nowadays crowing over his sins in Chelsea.
It may be that after this lapse of time, the Judge even tolerates the scapegrace.
Tommy Bangs was the scapegrace of the school, and the most trying scapegrace that ever lived.
On Saturday night BBC 2 screened the Woody Allen film Sweet And Lowdown, about a scapegrace 1930s jazz guitarist.
After all, the young scapegrace had a good heart, as can be seen in all comedies.
It was a nice thing to be told I was like this scapegrace,' he muttered.
I might have known that scapegrace would have given me the slip!
If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.
In my dilemma I had recourse to this Heintze, who was a young scapegrace, and the sort of man who could speak and write three languages.
He is sorely taken aback, too, by the dutiful behaviour of his nephew and has a woeful consciousness upon him of being a scapegrace.
Could the scapegrace still be a gambler, and that could account for it?
Three people determined upon it must surely save the scapegrace!
Singular to say, he was indebted for the place to that scapegrace Hill.
The truth is I was a good deal of a scapegrace when I left England.
Get down, you young scapegrace, and let the old man rest his weary limbs.
According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace.
You've grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.
If George did not mimic his uncle to his face, it was only by Dobbin's rebukes and Amelia's terrified entreaties that the little scapegrace was induced to desist.
She married in Boston a young scapegrace named Parlow, and like a good Brownon brought him to Blackburg forthwith and made a man and a town councilman of him.
