Highflyers

They were consequently glad to earn a trifle of cash and some food, by administering to the necessities and submitting to the various practical jokes or tyrannical tricks of their imperious masters; for Ralph had ample opportunities of observing that many of the so-called highflyers of Newgate were not a whit behind those whom they copied — the gay and gilded butterflies of fashion who fluttered in the external world — in scorning those whom fate or fortune had for the time placed in subordinate situations to themselves. ❋ Unknown (2004)

'highflyers' are being dumped by their spouses (or should that be 'spice'?) during the current financial crisis, because given that money is the spice of life, the ❋ Unknown (2009)

He took her to fashionable restaurants, introduced her to other literary highflyers, and accompanied her to theaters a disastrous adaptation of The Good Earth with an all-white American cast opened and closed that autumn in New York. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

Some highflyers in finance and airline business are putting on a brave front. there are chinks in their armour. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The UN's best people are now focused on reform which, just 5 years ago, was n unsexy backwater that highflyers avoided at all costs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oddly, though, the emphasis on careerism adds an element of wild incredulity to the series, since no highflyers in the real world could spend so little time at their desks as the ones here do. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are now more Afghan highflyers in the US than in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You can't hire them highflyers to put themselves into a town their money's bankin 'on to ruin in what you might call a summer-social way. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

Earthworms are a good bait for trout, but the highflyers of the gentle craft consider it infra dig to dig them. ❋ Various (N/A)

I feel no tendency to latitudinarianism, but only to see much good in systems unrecognised by your very highflyers. ❋ Yonge, Charlotte M (1873)

Hit seemed thet ev'ry gal mongst th 'highflyers wus after' im, an 'hit' pear'd like he did'n hav no p'tickler laks fer eny uv 'm-- jes smil'd an' run on wi 'all alike. ❋ Unknown (1863)

Howsomever, the highflyers does n't like him; and when he takes people's money, he need not be quite so cross about it. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Mrs.A. finds him useful; brings some of your young highflyers to her soirees. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

The Championship highflyers almost got their reward for a resilient performance on their first visit to the Emirates, surviving a flurry of first-half Arsenal chances before hitting back with a classic sucker punch. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, [T-Mac], [Dwight Howard], and [D-Wade] are the highflyers in the NBA ❋ RichieRich9219 (2008)

[What a] [highflyer]. He is a highflyer. ❋ Dean Grey (2019)