What is "highbinder"

Usage examples of "highbinder".

RIDE on Highbinder was something to see, for the big red horse was a fighter, and Bly, say what one would of the man, was a rider.

I lost my money to some quarter-mile horse racers out there in Texas and followed them highbinders across Red River up in the Chickasaw Nation and lost their trail.

Blondie, that Lew Costain has, or had, more enemies than any other picked dozen highbinders in this town.

It is not to be believed that a man who had been engaged in transactions measured by hundreds of thousands of dollars, through a period of ten years, should take every evidence of those transactions on board a vessel of hardly more than two hundred tons burden, manned by a crew composed of highbinders, as he has described them, and sail to foreign lands, over tempestuous seas, upon the poor pretext of procuring guano for the plantations of Louisiana,--and this, as he says, when war was imminent.

Even as he fenced with the black-bearded highbinder, Scaurus wondered why Avshar had yielded the stair so easily there at the end, why for the moment he was leaving the battle to his henchmen.

Bowser, “it was awful of you—for it was so frightfully improper to get behind that locked door, to say nothing of throwing us all into conniptions with firing guns, and calling for axes, and highbinders, and police, and Heaven knows what all—and what are highbinders, Mr.

Wilton,” said that charming dame, “my heart goes pit-a-pat when I see you, for it's almost like being among those dreadful highbinders again, and how could you bring the horrid creatures down on our dear Luella, when she might have been captured and sold into slavery under our very eyes.

Ordinarily that bunch of highbinders wouldn't give away a bucketful of space.

If all the crooks and conmen and highbinders know you are part owner, they'll think twice before trying anything.