Willie Waxteryoungest scion, scalawag, and scorcher of one of the oldest familiesjammed down his motorgoggles from the visor of his cap, making the feint of pursuing.

"Why, the scalawag!"

Rather well by sight and reputation, a good-for-nothin' scalawag, as Jim catalogued him, name of Steve Jarrold.

Wouldn't I jest a peppered dem scalawags as dey run past me?" replied the old fellow.

Well, then, say to him, 'Now, Potts, you know as well as any man in this town that you're an all-round no-goodyou're a human Notand a darn scalawag into the bargain.

I could 'a' rented the house twice over if there'd been any barn room; but them confounded young scalawags ripped out the horse and cow stalls, cleared away the pig pen, and laid a floor they could dance on.

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But there's no getting rid of such scalawags!" "Captain Jostler," cried Mr. Sampson, raising his hat, "it's none of my business, and you may knock me down the next minute, if you please, but God knows there's not a man aboard but owes his life to that boy.

I yerd dey was coming; mus' I hide de mules?" "No, Sam, the scalawags are more than a hundred miles away; they are near Natchez.

We are determined to tolerate no scalawags, nor carpetbaggers among us.

Fellow-soldier, be a scalawag, be a bashi-bazouk, be a Billy-Wilsoneer, if you wish to see the fun in the van!

The country is flat; the soil is fine sifted loam running to dust, as the air of England runs to fog; the woods are dense and beautiful and full of trees unknown to the parallel of New York; the roads are miserable cart-paths; the cattle are scalawags; so are the horses, not run away; so are the people, black and white, not run away; the crops are tolerable, where the invaders have not trampled them.

Wellington is in the hands of negroes and scalawags.

While Napoleon was away France was letting herself be ruined by those government scalawags in Paris, who were keeping back the soldiers' pay, withholding their linen and their clothes, and even letting them starve.

" Completely disguised by masks and outlandish dresses, the members rode at night, and whipped, maimed, and even murdered the objects of their wrath, who were either negroes who had become local political leaders, or carpetbaggers, or "scalawags," as the Southern whites who supported the negro cause were called.

François Villon cannot be called an edifying specimen of the human family, yet he unmistakably belongs there, and it was to that prince of scalawags that we owe not merely that loveliest sigh in literature"Where are the snows of yester-year?"but so striking a picture of the underworld of medieval Paris that without it we should hardly be able to know the times as they were.

" "Scalawag!"

De firs' thing I done was join de Democrat Club an' hoped[FN: helped] 'em run all o' de scalawags away from de place.

The few Southern whites who befriended the negroes were called "scalawags" by their white neighbors.

To his undoing he consented to take with him abroad a young scalawag, the son of his landlord, who had more money than brains.