bunco-steerer

• “Lord Dreever, he had felt, was precisely the sort of youth to whom the professional bunco-steerer would attach himself with shouts of joy.”

  The Intrusion of Jimmy

• “Why, there's a bunch of young stock jobbers around here that would make a Wall Street bunco-steerer take to raising chickens!”

  The Varmint

• “She had thought to find some touch of the Boweryite about him, some outcropping of the half-submerged bunco-steerer.”

  Phantom Wires A Novel

• “Its face is that of a tyrant, its numbers are false as those on a lottery ticket; its hands are those of a bunco-steerer, who makes an appointment with you to your ruin.”

  Fifth Avenue

• “They'll think you an honorable man 'stead of a bunco-steerer.”

  Rimrock Trail

• “His opportunity to make an immortal ass of himself, to earn catasterism and be placed among the stars as an equine udder, thus happened to hap: Kay-See was to have a "Karnival" modeled upon the pinchbeck rake with which Waco worked the gullible country folk once upon a time -- when she so far forgot herself as to trade on womanly beauty to make it a bunco-steerer for her stores.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10

• “In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.”

  Sister Carrie

• “He had formed a friendship with Sparrow MacCoy, who was at the head of his profession as a bunco-steerer, green goodsman and general rascal.”

  Tales of Terror and Mystery

• “bunco-steerer" had promised to keep his eyes and ears alert for news of any one resembling Goldenburg.”

  The Grell Mystery

• “a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.”

  Sister Carrie: a Novel

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