24 examples of bookie in sentences

I ought not to omit to mention another celebrated bookie of that day; he was second only to Crockford himself, and was called "The Librarian."

It was a large oak tree, and as I came up there was Hodgman, the bookie, who did not see me, walking round the rabbits, which lay in rows, counting them, and muttering, "Twofourtwenty," and so on up to a hundred.

" "Bugler's just been scratched," said the bookie, leaning over Van Bibber's shoulder for a greasy five-dollar bill.

A mind untrained in swift and adequate criticism is essentially an uneducated mind, though it has as many languages as a courier and as much computation as a bookie.

We hate to hold it in war-time, but the breed of horses and bookies must be kept up.

"Then I went to cherchay a bookie, but I couldn't find one anywheres.

Very often a horse is made a favourite by the bookies, in conjunction with the Press, just so as everyone will back it.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

The snatching of Bookie Bob.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

Smashing the bookie gang marauders.

So he walked up to a Bookie and said to him: "I want to Bet Fifty Cents on Green Pill, and this is a Dollar here, so you want to give me Fifty Cents Change.

" Whereupon the Bookie told him to Back Up and Fade and do a Disappearing Specialty.

You start a smart game, or a paying onesomething as knocks 'em, dear boy, No matter, mate, whether it's mustard, or rhymes, or a sixpenny toy; They'll be arter you, nick over nozzle, the smuggers of notions and nips, For the mugs is as 'ungry for wrinkles as broken-down bookies for tips.

24 examples of  bookie  in sentences