truckler

Example Sentences

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But at this particular juncture Chicago happened to have a certain corporation counsel who, while mildly infected with conventional views, was not a truckler to wealth.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers

"You are, and always will be a truckler to princes," said Eug�ne Alexander, offended.

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip

Unto the chase Rodrigo's gone,   With neither lance nor buckler; A baleful light his eyes outshone—   To pity he's no truckler.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

He was no truckler to his proprietors, and anyhow, the man whom the word had encarnadined was only a colliery-owner.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

He was, moreover, honest, and had little of the truckler or the time-server in his nature, as his opposition both to James I. and Charles I. showed, on occasion.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)