highflyers

They were consequently glad to earn a trifle of cash and some food, by administering to the necessities and submitting to the various practical jokes or tyrannical tricks of their imperious masters; for Ralph had ample opportunities of observing that many of the so-called highflyers of Newgate were not a whit behind those whom they copied — the gay and gilded butterflies of fashion who fluttered in the external world — in scorning those whom fate or fortune had for the time placed in subordinate situations to themselves.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

'highflyers' are being dumped by their spouses (or should that be 'spice'?) during the current financial crisis, because given that money is the spice of life, the

magic-city-news.com 2009

He took her to fashionable restaurants, introduced her to other literary highflyers, and accompanied her to theaters a disastrous adaptation of The Good Earth with an all-white American cast opened and closed that autumn in New York.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

He took her to fashionable restaurants, introduced her to other literary highflyers, and accompanied her to theaters a disastrous adaptation of The Good Earth with an all-white American cast opened and closed that autumn in New York.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Some highflyers in finance and airline business are putting on a brave front. there are chinks in their armour.

how we scraped through 2009

The UN's best people are now focused on reform which, just 5 years ago, was n unsexy backwater that highflyers avoided at all costs.

Suzanne Nossel: Wake Up and Smell the Kofi: 10 Signs UN Reform is Alive 2008

Oddly, though, the emphasis on careerism adds an element of wild incredulity to the series, since no highflyers in the real world could spend so little time at their desks as the ones here do.

Sex and the Office 2008

There are now more Afghan highflyers in the US than in Afghanistan.

Talibanning pigeons, 1996 2005

There are now more Afghan highflyers in the US than in Afghanistan.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

You can't hire them highflyers to put themselves into a town their money's bankin 'on to ruin in what you might call a summer-social way.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller