75 examples of rakish in sentences

The cabin wore an unwonted and a rakish air.

By the south corner, where the campoodie stood, is a single shrub of "hoopee" (Lycium Andersonii), maintaining itself hardly among alien shrubs, and near by, three low rakish trees of hackberry, so far from home that no prying of mine has been able to find another in any cañon east or west.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.

It was the Lieutenant's good-fortune to save the life of the Honorable Frederick Dunburne, second son of the Earla wild, rakish, undisciplined youth, much given to such mischievous enterprises as the twisting off of door-knockers, the beating of the watch, and the carrying away of tavern signs.

She lifted the sheets from another case; no Henry; only G.P.R., in six dozen rakish volumes.

What a figure should I make in rakish annals, if at last I should be caught in my own gin?

It was a snug berth, and a fairly isolated onea rakish-looking little gunboat being our nearest neighbour.

With their long, sharp wings and their outstretched necks,like loons, but with a different flight,they were rakish-looking customers.

So much was this the case, that an order of Francis I. forbad the judges from wearing pink "slashed hose" or other "rakish garments.

Her large and portly person was clothed in a gay cotton print of many colors; and upon her head was twisted a bright silk handkerchief, with a most rakish-looking bow which reposed over her left ear.

She simply flew to the mirror, but, as you know, it is away so high up she couldn't see, so she made frantic efforts with her hands, and just got it to cover the bald, in a rakish, one-sided way, when the whole lot streamed into the room.

He was a rakish, devil-may-care fellow, who, after being a sub-officer in the army, had lately been moved into the gendarmerie.

Were he rakish, then who so rakish as his devoted followers?

Were he rakish, then who so rakish as his devoted followers?

But woe to the man who was rakish when he should be praying, or who pulled a long face when the king wore a laughing one!

That his wig always sat straight and even around his ample forehead, not facetiously poked to one side, nor assuming rakish airs, unsuited to clerical dignity, was entirely owing to Mrs. Katy Scudder.

George Farquharhow his name conjures up a vision of all that is brilliant, rakish, and bibulous in the expiring days of the seventeenth century!

The rakish halo, by Harriet Henry.

His wicked little eyes glared insolently at me, and he strolled by with his hat stuck at a rakish angle; and for the life of me, would you believe it?

The railway station is a long, low, rakish thing of boards, painted a muddy maroon color.

" As Bog caught sight of the letter, done up in the long, rakish envelope which had just begun to come into fashion, and faintly perfumed, a lucky thought occurred to him.

The Adam and Eve Tea Gardens, St. Pancras, have a somewhat rakish sound, calculated to arrest the jaded attention of the debauchee, but what has Mr. Wroth to tell us about them? 'About the beginning of the present century it could still be described as an agreeable retreat, "with enchanting prospects"; and the gardens were laid out with arbours, flowers, and shrubs.

And especially (in this age of egoistic idealism) there is about one who defends humility something inexpressibly rakish.

But I wouldn't try, Josiah Allen, to imitate that roarin' and rakish set if I wuz in your place, you a member of the meetin' house.

and he looked the most rakish.

75 examples of  rakish  in sentences