high-stepper

• “Meanwhile, that other animated high-stepper still in the markeptlace?”

  The Weekend Steeple Chase (Movie Wise)

• “Though old and lean, Billy is a high-stepper and quick of foot; he never trips nor stumbles.”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

• “He was not stepping high or jaunty, and Gus was usually a high-stepper, in the mornings.”

  Simon & Schuster: Comanche Moon

• “We are like a horse that has been trained to be a "high-stepper.”

  Humanly Speaking

• “Once I run with a high-stepper from Bowlin 'Green, Kentucky, and she told me better nor that," he explained.”

  'Me--Smith'

• “Most fellers isn't so oneasy about a sister-in-law, but I reckon this one is different, being report says she's a high-stepper, said Walker, as he grinned at”

  Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

• “A trick is always so low that a high-stepper can walk right over it.”

  Old Gorgon Graham

• “One's a high-stepper -- regular society -- was engaged to the patient and now acts as if she'd married him; and the other -- well, perhaps you can make her out; I can't.”

  The Dust Flower

• “Our chosen driver replied to this by saying that he wouldn't be caught dead at a pig fair with Dan Ryan's horse, but in the midst of all the distracting discussions and arguments that followed we held to our original bargain; for we did not like the look of Dan Ryan's high-stepper, who was a 'thrifle mounTAIny,' as they say in these parts, and had a wild eye to boot.”

  Penelope's Irish Experiences

• “His patched jacket kept the head of the classes, and his stubby-toed shoes marched up every month to get the ticket, and he had helped more than one heavy-witted "high-stepper" through conditions that threatened to put him out of the race.”

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