On the 16th of September one troop of the regiment attacked an immense number of rapparees who were proceeding from Cork to Lismore, and having routed them and killed forty, took three prisoners.
The Rappareessacked the castle before they left for Cluin-Kyle with the news of the tyrant's death.
Notwithstanding his expectation of being attacked by Rapparees or other robbers, he reached Dublin in safety, and was welcomed by Mr Twigg, who took him to his own house that they might discuss together the subject in hand.
If you and the young lady will just mount on the car, we'll escort you safe into Waterford; and if he and a score of Rapparees like himself were to come back, we'd bate them all off before they could come near you.
It will be a good thing for the rapparees to have a lesson.
But I own that I am nervous at the thought of you and Claire being here, should the rapparees attack the house.
The rapparees would never attack a house which has the general's protection, and with an officer and some troopers of the king to guard it.
I have strong reason to believe that it is likely one of the bands of rapparees will make an attack on Mrs. Conyers' house tonight.
The rapparees knew they had no chance of breaking into the house, so defended, and, when Walter ceased, each man slunk away in the darkness.
We hear tales of the rapparees burning every Protestant house in the district.
Even if they are in the neighbourhood, the rapparees will hardly venture an attack upon a house occupied by even a few of our troops.
But we have heard of no rapparees in this neighbourhood, Walter," she said.
Though very few labourers were seen at work in the fields, the road was lined by Rapparees armed with skeans, stakes, and half pikes, who crowded to look upon the deliverer of their race.
In truth the barbarity and filthiness of the banquets of the Rappareeswas such as the dramatists of Grub Street could scarcely caricature.
Indeed a gang of Rapparees gave less annoyance to peaceable citizens, and more annoyance to the enemy, than a regiment of infantry.
The habits of escape peculiar to the Rapparees were well known to Fergus, who cautioned those who surrounded the house to watch the roof.
It has been observed, and with truth, that the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance, and this is not at all to be wondered at.
The robber, on the other hand, did not seem anxious to take his life, for it was a principle among the Rapparees to shed, while exercising their rapacious functions, as little blood as possible.
This, indeed, was the sagacious principle of the Irish Robbers andRapparees from the beginning to rob from the rich and give to the poor being their motto.
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