BURNS -- who has stuck loyally to Council -- fiercely denounced as a "blackleg" by crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

A kind of blackleg doing the work cheaper -- nay, for nothing. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Bow Mystery] Reference

He resolved upon a consultation with the blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

But that's blacklegging and I'd sooner starve than blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

‘Out on the insufferable blackleg and puppy!’ and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

South is that of the gentlemanly blackleg, bully, and desperado.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

JAUNE — blackleg — when we would not join with him in stealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Calhoun is 'treacherous', and 'a thorough-paced political blackleg. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Fitzgerald mentioned as a noted gambler, and sometimes even as a blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers] Reference

Moorish Government and the European blackleg will divide his worldly goods between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

You and your master are cheats, he says, and your master is a blackleg besides, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inspector-General] Reference

"But they'd be ashamed to blackleg if once they were got into the union," persisted Nellie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

"I wadna 'like if my faither was a blackleg," observed Mysie Maitland to the girl next her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I've lost more this time; but no dishonest blackleg will have the benefit of it, that's sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

I remember the confounded blackleg and the way in which he used to cheat and hoodwink poor George.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

It is easy to calumniate a person by qualifying him in an off-hand way as a thief, a blackleg, a fast-liver, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference

Quincy Adams was the puritan; Henry Clay ostensibly the blackleg or a man of a corrupt heart and corrupt motives.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Jubilee] Reference

In my pasture were also wolves and blackleg; and the loss in calves by these, difficult to detect, is invariably greater than suspected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Sooner than turn blackleg -- I 'd starve, I would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference

"A blackleg, I take it," was his unhesitating answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference

"A blackleg himself!" was shouted by two or three voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference

He seems to be a complete blackleg, in spite of his baronetcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth] Reference

Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

"McQuade, you're as fine a blackleg as ever graced a prison," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half a Rogue] Reference

One heifer, she got blackleg and die, but the rest they're all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

On their heels came Sir James Craven, the choicest blackleg in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

"Why, that blackleg swindler in there!" said Dig, pointing at Mills's door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master of the Shell] Reference

Art found a heifer down in the breaks that looks like she might have blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean of the Lazy A] Reference

He already knows his rival to be a blackguard; in all likelihood he is also a blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

He bears but a very indifferent character, and will probably become a complete blackleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

Couldn't say exactly when, for some rascally blackleg Boers, who had been corrupting his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

Having been through one blackleg epidemic back in Texas, he knew the signs only too well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shoe-Bar Stratton] Reference

"Gellybrand is the greatest scoundrel and blackleg in the history of dancing," continued Poulter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference

'What do you say to such a nest of assassins, and one of them, an outcast and blackleg, asking an English gentleman to acknowledge him as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference