He stands on points of honour, forsooth, this broken-down horse-jockey, who swallowed my two thousand pounds as a pointer would a pat of butter. — ❋ Unknown (2008)
At a fair or market, you could not for a moment have doubted that he was a horse-jockey, intimate with all the tricks of his trade; yet, had you met him on a moor, you would not have apprehended any violence from him. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Yes, they form a happy compound of sot, gamekeeper, bully, horse-jockey, and fool; but as they say there cannot be found two leaves on the same tree exactly alike, so these happy ingredients, being mingled in somewhat various proportions in each individual, make an agreeable variety for those who like to study character.” ❋ Unknown (2005)
At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the long hall, bore the unfortunate horse-jockey clear out of the mouth of the cavern, and precipitated him over a steep bank of loose stones, where the shepherds found him the next morning with just breath sufficient to tell his fearful tale, after concluding which he expired. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One would say that he was a horse-jockey dressed in his Sunday best. ❋ Various (N/A)
Territory, he solicited and received from Brigham Young a patriarchal blessing; Drummond, as an amorous horse-jockey, who had taken to Utah, as his mistress, a drab from Washington, and seated her beside him once upon the bench of the court; Stiles as himself a Mormon, so far as the possession of two wives could make him one. ❋ Various (N/A)
Percie, the son and heir, has more of the sot than of the gamekeeper, bully, horse-jockey, or fool. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
So we used to sit down at the next table to one where a gambler or a horse-jockey would perhaps be seated, or a man of worse fame, and order our humble repast with a quiet conscience and a strengthened determination never to become one among such people. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ranchero of distinguished appearance an accomplished monte-dealer and horse-jockey. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
Next came the lawyer's cranium; then followed the horse-jockey and tavern-keeper; and finally, it was _my_ turn to take the stool. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
We have no ministers, though fourteen miles from here there is a rancho kept by a man of distinguished appearance, an accomplished monte-dealer and horse-jockey, who is _said_ to have been, in the States, a preacher of the Gospel. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
And this was the last I saw of Button, who was one of the strangest combinations of hotel-keeper, horse-jockey, Indian-trader, fish-monger, and alligator, I ever met. ❋ Various (N/A)
The believing multitude consists of women of both sexes, feeble-minded inquirers, poetical optimists, people who always get cheated in buying horses, philanthropists who insist on hurrying up the millennium, and others of this class, with here and there a clergyman, less frequently a lawyer, very rarely a physician, and almost never a horse-jockey or a member of the detective police. ❋ Various (N/A)
Even in that moment of horror, the Cap'n had eyes to see and wit to understand that this false tail was more of Marengo Todd's horse-jockey guile. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
"He is a miserable, cheap horse-jockey, and I shall treat him with the contempt he deserves," he blustered. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
With the possible exception of one Marengo Todd, horse-jockey and also far-removed cousin of Mrs. Sproul, there was no one in her circle of cousins that the Cap'n hated any more cordially than Todd Ward Brackett. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
He was considered among his more peaceable neighbours, pretty much as a gambler, cock-fighter, or horse-jockey would be regarded at the present day; a person, of course, whose habits were to be condemned, and his society, in general, avoided, yet who could not be considered as marked with the indelible infamy attached to his profession where laws have been habitually observed. ❋ Unknown (1898)
It had in it the meanness of the horse-jockey who, on entering a race, proposes, if beaten, to run off with the stakes. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Omg, look at that horse jockey, [she can play] [flip cup] [like it's] her job, that's she's eye level to the table. ❋ AFriendOfAFriend (2009)
1)Rumor had spread that Maria's [horse jockey's boot] was the largest external appendage in [the Benton] County Area on a female whore.
2) In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the horse jockey's boot sleeps tonight... ❋ Toosh (2008)
I can't believe Tim is still arguing about [toothpaste] with Bob, Bob agreed with him [20 minutes] ago! What a [dead horse Jockey]. ❋ Darious Guile (2009)
