78 examples of backer in sentences

Almost every latitude of behavior is allowed a good fellow, one no liar, a free spender, and a backer of his friends' quarrels.

"But I can't afford to be identified with your project," said the backer, who feared ridicule for his hardihood.

Mr. Fawcett, who has the same right to his opinion, bein' also a backer and one o' the committee, thinks the other way.

He's the Master's backer, you know.

You shall never want a backer.

The act hasn't any time yet, but it will get time as soon as it makes good, and to make good all its needs is a trial performance, and the backer thinks he knows where he can get a trial performance, and to get ready for the trial performance will require about five weeks' rehearsal at nix per week.

The author didn't want that put in, but the backer of the show convinced him that nowadays every true musical comedy had an imitation of the 'Merry Widow' waltz, so he let it slide.

It was the tone of a pugilist's backer.

producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel [Fig.].

votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel (theater, entertainment).

Boswell always delighted in fighting with his gigantic backer close behind him.

Russia as the great revolution-queller, reading the Riot Act to the liberals of Europe, and sending one hundred and fifty thousand men to "crush out" the nationality of Hungary, and to revivify the power of Austria, was to them an object of reverence; but Russia the liberator of serfs, and the backer of France in the Italian War, became an object of hate and fear.

'If this knee don't get well before next Wednesday, they'll have it that you fought a cross, and a pretty job you'll have next time you look for a backer.

The great case itself had nothing to do with sport, and, indeed, from a narrative point of view, was somewhat uninteresting, but the man who alone held the one piece of information wanted was a keeper, backer, or "gaffer" of professional pedestrians, and it was through the medium of his pecuniary interest in such matters that Hewitt was enabled to strike a bargain with him.

"Give it to 'em, right and left, Guinea," cried Fid: "here is one who will come in as a backer, so soon as he has stopped the grog of the marine.

CONRAD DRYFOOS, the son of a rich man, the backer and virtual proprietor of Every Other Week, in W. D. Howells's novel, A Hazard of New Fortunes.

The Count d'Artigas is my backer and Engineer Serko is my partner.

The legendsTheir archaic characterThe pursuit of Gilla Backer and his horseThe ollamhsPositions of the bards or ollamhs in Primitive Ireland.

Take, for instancefor space will not allow of more than a samplethe story of "The Pursuit of Gilla Backer and his Horse," not by any means one of the best, yet characteristic enough.

How he came before the king and, having made obeisance, told him that his name was the Gilla Backer, and then and there took service with him for a year, desiring at the same time that special care should be paid to his horse, and the best food given it, and care taken that it did not stray, whereat the heroes laughed again, the horse standing like a thing carved in wood and unable apparently to move a leg.

Seeing which, the Fenni rose up in high wrath, and one of them seized the Gilla Backer's horse by the halter and tried to draw it away, but again it became like a rock, and refused to stir.

The very instant, however, that its master, the Gilla Backer rose up angrily to depart, the old horse went too, with the fourteen heroes still upon his back, whereat the Fenni raised fresh shouts of laughter.

But the Gilla Backer, after he had walked a little way, looked back, and seeing that his horse was following, stood for a moment to tuck up his skirts.

We have already seen, from Backer's Jesuit bibliography, that Father Léonard Périn added a chapter on "bienséance" at table; but after this there is another chaptera wonderful chapterand it would be interesting to learn whether we owe this also to Périn.

" "La, chile, I done 'sposed ob it aready, an' dey give me a poun of backer an' a gole-piece fur it.

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