It had been so christened because of its low, rakish appearance, and the fact that it was painted a dead black.
A black velveteen jacket resplendent with pearl-buttons, velveteen knee-breeches tied with ribbons at the knees, and a rakish Alpine hat with a feather adorned my master's person.
With his unkempt beard and swarthy face and ridiculous pearl-buttoned velveteens, there was an air of rakish picturesqueness about Paragot, and he retained, what indeed he never quite lost, a certain aristocracy of demeanour.
Two French clipper ships were scudding quietly along off the Italian coast, one bright day in June of 1747, when a rakish vessel appeared upon the horizon and speedily bore down upon them.
The Argo boomed along under a spanking sou'wester and, sailing near the stranger, to the keen eyes of Talbot came the welcome sight of King George painted upon the stern of the rakish privateer.
The light ships hung near the Spaniards at a distance and did not board until spars were down and the great rakish hulls were part helpless.
He was a serious young man, notrakish or loud-voiced like the others.
People used to say that Ignatius Gallaher was wild Of course, he did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time, drank freely and borrowed money on all sides.
He was tall, well-made, and had that indescribably rakish character about his very gesture that is rarely a bad indication of the possessor's mode of life.
Falkoner was evidently surprised with this announcement; but more so from the rakish indifference it betrayed about money, than as bespeaking me rich and affluent.
This was one of the fine young rakish fellows from Lunnun as were always swarming about my Lady, like bees over that maybush.
And my Aura must be deaf to rakish young beaux and their compliments.
A fine young woman of about twenty-three, dressed handsomely but without much fashion in black crape and silk, jumped out with a violence that sent her overplumed black hat to a rakish angle.
The waitress, for want of a definite order, had brought her coffee, which somehow made her feel very rakish and continental, though she would have much preferred tea.
Fleetwood smartened the trot of his team, and there was a to-do with the rakish leaders.
The Countess of Cressett--an extraordinary instance of a thrice married woman corrected in her addiction to play by her alliance with a rakish juvenile--declares she performs the part of hostess at the request of the Countess of Fleetwood.
I have often heard a stave or two of psalmody, hummed over by rakish young fellows, like a snatch from an opera.
For the rest, there was a fierce little squint out of one eye; the nose had a rakish twist to one side; while his large mouth, and great white teeth, looked absolutely sharkish when he laughed.
The long, rakish craft, of comparatively small beam and tapering lines, was no doubt originally an American production.
But Mr. Conne, with hat tilted far down over his forehead and cigar at an outrageously rakish angle, was looking straight ahead of him, at a French flag across the way.
Irrepressibles try to row yawl through sternlights of "Lotus"; grand collision of yawl at full speed and a rakish cutter at anchor.
Illustration: Meigg's Wharf in 1856] About dusk our rakish cutter drifted into the shelter of the hills along the north shore of the bay, and with a chorus of enthusiastic cheers we dropped anchor in two fathoms of soft mud.
The brigantine lay in the position that exhibited her exquisitely-moulded hull and rakishrig to the most advantage.
Others that affect a rakish negligent Air by folding their Arms, and lolling on their Book, will be taught a decent Behaviour, and comely Erection of Body.
There was something rakish about this young lady which frightened her respectability.
When Cairns was not expected her lunch was of the simplest, and Charlotte discovered with amazement that her rakish mistress could check a grocer's book.
See but how he simpers, and enjoys, as one may say, the relations of his ownrakish actions, when he tells a bad story!
She pursed her lips, she scratched her forehead thoughtfully, and so pushed her false front over to a mostrakish angle.
The brig was a large, rakish craft, with a black hull, and as I looked at her I had some doubts about her character.
His narrow face wore a rakish but supercilious expression, which was enhanced by his manner of wearing a hat shaped like a truncated cone with a curled brim.
From an American point of view the prettiest actresses of the Ghetto are admired by the minority of Jews who have been taken by the rakish hat, the slim form, and the indefinite charm to which the Ghetto is being educated.
She was low in the water, had two smoke-stacks, and presented a very rakish appearance.
