wild Irishman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There was no answer—there would never be an answer again, for the wild Irishman was dead.
From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.
George still imagined that she kept her passionate love intact for the wild Irishman.
From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.
Tom scampered after him, hallooing with might and main, and the wild horse and wild Irishman soon disappeared among the ravines of the prairie.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
"You mean to say you gave up a vacation trip to Alexandria to take this ferry job with that wild Irishman, O'Malley?"
From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Montgomery, Rutherford George
"For all my being the great man that you see me now, I was originally a Barbarian;" as if Burke should say, "I came over a wild Irishman."
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James
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