Normally, this is a homely part of town, culturally and racially mixed with a lively, sometimes rascally street life – a world away from the stuffy 7th arrondissement.
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
He caressed his guitar to a climax of agitated shrieking and then flashed her, from under his shaggy mane of hair, his rascally gold-toothed smile.His playing made listeners behave in strange ways.
Though races today are on a track rather than mountain byways and drivers tend to be wholesome, media-friendly "brands", not backwoods renegades, the sport still enjoys a rascally image.
For Holmes and Dr Watson, menace invariably took a sinister eastern form: a sallow Malay attendant at an east London opium den run by a rascally lascar; an evil pygmy; a deadly Indian snake used as a murder weapon.
ANNOYED at being skinned in a Cairo bazaar, a medieval Arab traveller sniffed that rascally Egyptians behaved "as if there were no Day of Judgment".
Rossini's most famous opera is Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816; The Barber of Seville, libretto by Cesare Sterbini after another 18th-century play by Beaumarchais about the rascally Figaro), perhaps the most exemplary of all opere buffe.
He multiplied his personal attacks, often stooping to low cunning; in his sentimental comedy L'Écossaise (1760), he mimicked the eminent critic Élie Fréron, who had attacked him in reviews, by portraying his adversary as a rascally journalist who intervenes in a quarrel between two Scottish families.
Family photographs cover tables and desks – including one of David looking rascally in a judge's wig.
After nearly four years of Mr Sarkozy's vainglorious and frenetic leadership, many French people – including, bizarrely, many on the left – now look back at Mr Chirac as a rascally, wise and reassuring uncle who did not achieve much but at least had the good sense to oppose the Iraq war in 2003.
Yet those rascally advertising men will doubtless already have convinced a few hundred private individuals to part with their money in exchange for one.
