log-roller

Mr. Reid then cast the father of the Reagan Revolution as a typical Beltway log-roller.

Harry Reid's Reagan Revisionism James Freeman 2011

He told me a lot about himself and a lot about his car; how he had been everything in America, from log-roller in the backwoods to cook in the

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

He gained the reputation of being the best “log-roller” in the legislature, and no measure got the support of the “Long Nine” without a contract for votes to be given in return for the removal of the state capital.

Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

For the author in embryo he is assisted above all by the literary log-roller who flourishes so much in our day.

Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

He was the terror of the lobbyist, and of the legislative log-roller.

Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881

Judge Dunlevy represented the loftiest possibilities of human character; and that one of the two poor orphans -- the sons of a wood-cutter and log-roller on the Alleghenies, and the victim of intemperance at last -- whom Jabel had watched and partly reared, should now be betrothed to Catharine Dunlevy, the judge's only daughter, affected every remaining sentiment in Jabel's heart.

Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

This system of policy gave fine scope for the talents of the "log-roller," here defined as an especially wily and persuasive person, who could depict the merits of his scheme with roseate but delusive eloquence, and who was said to carry a gourd of "possum fat" -- wherewith he "greased and swallowed" his prey.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

Greg takes his strides quickly, with the sureness of a log-roller, balancing just above the cold waters.

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Greg takes his strides quickly, with the sureness of a log-roller, balancing just above the cold waters.

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Greg takes his strides quickly, with the sureness of a log-roller, balancing just above the cold waters.

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