black-leg

• “There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.”

  View from the Northern Border

• “I can break it, I can turn black-leg and go to work for the Chinese.”

  Two in Time

• “Were it not for the fact that your name has been publicly associated with hers, I would prosecute you for the scoundrel and black-leg that you are.”

  At the Time Appointed

• “The blade of Vernon was arrested in its deadly descent, and a single blow from the fist of the new-comer laid the black-leg prostrate by the side of the woodman.”

  Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue

• “If they are kept regularly growing on, black-leg will be prevented.”

  Cattle and Cattle-breeders

• “After the first winter, black-leg is little to be feared.”

  Cattle and Cattle-breeders

• “Prevention is the only safeguard, for I have never seen black-leg cured.”

  Cattle and Cattle-breeders

• “I have seen almost every calf on several large farms carried off by black-leg.”

  Cattle and Cattle-breeders

• “Germany, we know that all the watering-places are infested with black-leg gamblers, fortune-hunters, _chevaliers d'industrie_, through all varieties of this category.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

• “In truth, we might ask, what would become of our aristocratic classes ere long, if they came, as a body, to be identified with their gambling lords, their black-leg baronets, their insolvent honourables, and the seedy set of”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843

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