highbinder

Example Sentences

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It was one Joe Ding, a notorious highbinder.

From The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street by Doughty, Francis Worcester

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

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

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