A person of great ability and ambition

Usage examples of highflyer.

Whether they take the Highflyer or a post-chaise, I must catch them before they leave.

In the yard of that hostelry stood the Highflyer ready for its horses, with the baggage already strapped in its place.

He has entered horses for the Thorpe stakes: he will seek to make you enter them, and you told me yourself May and Highflyer were not fit to run this year.

I rather think that highflyer will run into a fog before she gets to the shore.

With an apparatus for taking ranges he had procured the bearing of the highflyer accurately as soon as the last course was given out, perhaps half an hour before.

Regis drove ahead furiously on her course, and the highflyer was doing the same.

I owned that highflyer, I should not employ her present captain to sail her for me.

Regis was rapidly gaining on the Raven, for the latter was near enough now to enable the pursuers to read the name on her stern, and the captain of the highflyer could not help realizing that he had not the slightest chance to escape.

They all involve scenes at fashionable parties and meetings with highflyers in Society.

His wife was very different from the highflyers or pretentious noblewomen he usually escorted, and Madame DuBay had responded accordingly.

Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—everything that hangs off a longline.

One doesn't advance in that organization except by toughness—and remarkably often the highflyers are men who have crushed their own mentors along the way.

Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—.