"Spalpeen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to murther the poor young spalpeen," muttered the Irishman, as he hastened to do his errand, remembering now with trepidation that, though he had escaped from his master, the big, red-faced, stout-armed wife of his bosom was still to be propitiated after ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... that dirty little spalpeen av a Caggs went back on us so, what could Oi do? Oi know it's speak to yez Oi ought, but wid de room yellin' like that it's divilish tryin' to do the right thing quick, barrin' it's not hittin' some one's head, which always ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... spalpeen!" he shouted. The criminal answered by viciously hurling the lantern into the face of his assailant, and in the act, the mask somehow or other was disarranged and slipped from its place. It was only a passing glimpse that Mike caught of him, but it identified ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... are green, And shows what railroads have been track'd, to guide The wheels of great political machine; If English corn should grow abroad, I ween, And gold be made of gold, or paper sheet; How many pigs be born to each spalpeen; And, ah! how man shall thrive beyond his meat,— With twenty souls alive, to one square sod ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood |
