rebel-looking

Updated: August 16, 2026

We have been obliged often to endure speeches of this sort, most commonly uttered in the Scotch accent. "My life on't that fellow is a renegado Englishman, or Irishman an halter will be, I hope, his portion. D n all such rebel-looking rascals."

Benjamin Waterhouse - A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.: Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was: Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred: And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island,: Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At: Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes: And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political: Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct: Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre: Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.