| Sydney had its share of scandals and scalawags, especially late in the period, contributing to its rambunctious image. |
| They had me and the rest of those scrags and scalawags gyrating all over in some sort of fiendish trance! |
| Altogether, during the Reconstruction era, scalawags constituted perhaps 20 percent of the white electorate, a sizable force in any election or constitutional convention. |
| Bust times inevitably recall repressed myths of gallant cavalry laid low by Northern treachery and an economy ravaged by carpetbaggers and scalawags. |
| Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests. |
| There were a few thousand carpetbaggers in each State, with, at first, a much larger number of scalawags. |
