Meanwhile, that other animated high-stepper still in the markeptlace? ❋ Steve Hulett (2007)
Though old and lean, Billy is a high-stepper and quick of foot; he never trips nor stumbles. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was not stepping high or jaunty, and Gus was usually a high-stepper, in the mornings. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1997)
We are like a horse that has been trained to be a "high-stepper." ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)
"Once I run with a high-stepper from Bowlin 'Green, Kentucky, and she told me better nor that," he explained. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
Most fellers isn't so oneasy about a sister-in-law, but I reckon this one is different, being report says she's a high-stepper, said Walker, as he grinned at ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)
A trick is always so low that a high-stepper can walk right over it. ❋ Lorimer, George H (1903)
One's a high-stepper -- regular society -- was engaged to the patient and now acts as if she'd married him; and the other -- well, perhaps you can make her out; I can't. ❋ Basil King (1893)
Our chosen driver replied to this by saying that he wouldn't be caught dead at a pig fair with Dan Ryan's horse, but in the midst of all the distracting discussions and arguments that followed we held to our original bargain; for we did not like the look of Dan Ryan's high-stepper, who was a 'thrifle mounTAIny,' as they say in these parts, and had a wild eye to boot. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)
His patched jacket kept the head of the classes, and his stubby-toed shoes marched up every month to get the ticket, and he had helped more than one heavy-witted "high-stepper" through conditions that threatened to put him out of the race. ❋ Unknown (1888)
_Durchlaucht_, he was entitled to a seat in the front row, and I preferred prancing about with my _hochgeboren_ high-stepper to having to take a back seat in the third row with a minor _geboren_. ❋ Unknown (1886)
I am a high-stepper, fit only for a carriage, and of no use on sandy, rutty roads, where common horses do the work better and more steadily. ❋ Henryk Sienkiewicz (1881)
Behind these came Charley's wife and little girl in the buggy, with the new, young, spry, gray horse -- a high-stepper. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
He's might peart-lookin, that young feller, Rosey -- long black moustaches, all his own color, Rosey -- and he's a regular high-stepper, you bet. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
The horse was a high-stepper, such as are not to be bought for a song; the turn-out was at the first glance perfect. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Yet Alley wowed the crowd with moves befitting a high-stepper half her age. ❋ Judy Kurtz (2011)
a stalking-horse whose paces are sufficiently showy and imposing -- a high-stepper, of thoroughbred appearance, and a mouth sensitively alive to the lightest touch of the curb, easy to ride or drive, warranted neither a kicker nor a bolter -- is a quadruped of rare excellence, not to be met with every day. ❋ Unknown (1875)
