highbinder

Example Sentences

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Finally he questioned with soft cheer: "And what sort of a highbinder are you?"

From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington

We have pegged those stocks where the slump would be most demoralizing and already this highbinder, Burton, has smashed those pegs like match-stems.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville

Her next question was, "Have you ever been a highbinder?"

From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Gratton, Henry Pearson

And twelve for Tessie, and eight for this highbinder on my knee, here!

From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

So I wasn’t going to have Beatrice’s husband a cutthroat and a highbinder as he would have to be if he had turned the whole trick.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro