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Rochester never intended his rake-hell verses to be published.

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Rochester never intended his rake-hell verses to be published.

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"That rake-hell, Ford, Lord Grey has made it so," grumbled Trenchard, busy with his stockings.

Mistress Wilding Rafael Sabatini 1912

But though he was a beauty and a crafty rake-hell fellow, you were too sharp for him.

A Lady of Quality 1896

Will was a rake-hell of Fleet Street in the days of James, a chosen light of Alsatia, the home of bullies and of brawlers.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I had not got, and lived a generally rake-hell life.

Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

"By Gad!" said one over his cups, "there are things even a rake-hell fellow like me cannot do; but he does them, and seems not to know that they are to his discredit."

A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

But though he was a beauty and a crafty rake-hell fellow, you were too sharp for him.

A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

It would have been better for me had I been the worst rake-hell at Whitehall, than to have held myself aloof from the modish vices of my day, only to concentrate all my desires and affections there, where it was most sinful to place them.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

And you are angry, you storm and rave when a respectable person wants to save the unfortunate child from having her innocence corrupted, save her from withering away profitlessly in the claws of a pack of gross, rowdy, street-lounging, rake-hell young profligates, from living a life of wretchedness and shame, from dying abandoned and accursed, to say nothing of the fire of hell after death.

A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864