Heelers

Sunday evening, without thinking, the wife calls the heelers for their bedtime "out". ❋ Grouse (2009)

After finding a shady place to park the heelers, that is. ❋ Grouse (2004)

The scruffy black thing and the heelers are my friends. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What was the tragic lot of a widow and starving children compared with keeping promises with greedy "heelers"? ❋ Thayer, William R (1919)

When his "kid-glove" friends laughed at him for deliberately choosing to leap into the political mire, he told them that the governing class ought to govern, and that not they themselves but the bosses and "heelers" were the real governors of New York City. ❋ Thayer, William R (1919)

I soon became on good terms with a number of the ordinary "heelers" and even some of the minor leaders. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Nye, formerly police commissioner in New York City, had arrived a short time before, and with his party of retainers ( "heelers" we would call them now), had made an imposing entrance. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

Ramón had been a young subordinate of the _Ayuntamiento_, he had met and liked the man, and taking him into the ranks of his "heelers," had promoted him rapidly to be chief of staff. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

In the course of his electioneering campaign in Delaware, conducted as all the world knows how, Addicks had gathered to his cause as tough and rascally a set of "heelers" as ever waylaid aged woman or lame man on the highway. ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)

Cloud's own people, yet here were they wrangling like ward "heelers" and wasting precious time. ❋ Charles King (1888)

But Sancho little knew how many a congressman along at the close of the war, finding himself compelled to provide some kind of living for political "heelers," or some impersonal reward for services rendered, had foisted his henchmen into the army, then being enlarged and reorganized, and Nevins was one of the results of the iniquitous system. ❋ Charles King (1888)

This system is very simple, it enables a vote to be given in absolute secrecy, and it keeps "heelers" away from the polls. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

You can weave the political pull of San Francisco saloon men and ward heelers into a position of graft such as this one you occupy; but you can't weave jute. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I groaned along with the two older Indian guys at the bar, when the heelers in the team-roping division had a devil of a time catching a single hind leg on the calf, let alone two. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

A bottom-up campaign effort that can win without paying off ward heelers and without distributing "walkin'-around money"? ❋ Unknown (2008)