wild Irishman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I am rather anxious to see the wild Irishman they have captured lately—Lord Mallow.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
"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 Rutherford George Montgomery
There was no answer—there would never be an answer again, for the wild Irishman was dead.
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
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 Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
You're a very fine woman, me lady, and I'm proud as Punch of you, but you don't know how to manage a wild Irishman when he is ill.
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
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