truckler

Example Sentences

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"You are, and always will be a truckler to princes," said Eug�ne Alexander, offended.

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip

He was no truckler to his proprietors, and anyhow, the man whom the word had encarnadined was only a colliery-owner.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

He was, moreover, honest, and had little of the truckler or the time-server in his nature, as his opposition both to James I. and Charles I. showed, on occasion.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

Unto the chase Rodrigo's gone,   With neither lance nor buckler; A baleful light his eyes outshone—   To pity he's no truckler.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

But at this particular juncture Chicago happened to have a certain corporation counsel who, while mildly infected with conventional views, was not a truckler to wealth.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers