counter-jumper

“Why,” said he, stifling his anger, “it seems free enough to every counter-jumper in the town!”

Westward Ho! 2007

“You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear,” said the Count, advancing hastily to meet Emilie.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

“You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear,” said the Count, advancing hastily to meet Emilie.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

Sunday could convert one average navvy or counter-jumper.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

A young man with a sandy moustache, a celestial nose, and fishy blue eyes, got up to look like a counter-jumper on a holiday, whom I had long since learned to know as Detective Limpet, was walking a few steps behind me on the other side of the road.

A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith

He had set Redburn down as a faint-hearted, dubious-couraged counter-jumper from the East; he saw now that there was something of him, after all.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

Against arrogance, against contempt of himself as a shop person, a species of "counter-jumper," against irascibility, against bigoted ignorance, against an indissoluble assumption, perhaps logical, that he is of inferior mentality, this factotum has no defence.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

Thereupon the long-limbed clerk verified the taunt of "counter-jumper" by clearing it at a bound.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

He thought it necessary to get himself up to look like an artist, though he had not the soul of a counter-jumper, and the result was long hair, a velvet coat, a red tie, bumptious bearing, and an altogether scatter-brained and fly-away manner.

A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith