What is "moonshining"

Usage examples of "moonshining".

Deputy Marshall Custis Long has been sent to Arkansas to investigate an unusually large moonshining operation.

No one was certain where the majority of the moonshining business went on.

Since he had been given direct orders not to involve himself down in the tangled hollows and cuts and draws of the moonshining country, he had to invent plausible reasons why he was drawn step by step into the lengthy investigation that he was supposed to have had no part of.

But buying a so-called half-pint now and then (striking a blow for liberty, the more robust males called it, a trifle shamefacedly) was one thing, and condoning moonshining and bootlegging in their midst was something else again.

Maybe the sheriff had got wind of Adams' off-and-on moonshining operation and was out to do some checking, hoping that some neighbor might misspeak himself.

None of them would, of course, for it was none of their business, really, and the moonshining had built up no nuisance value.

Maybe the sheriff had got wind of Adams” off-and-on moonshining operation and was out to do some checking, hoping that some neighbor might misspeak himself.

She roped me into this job, and I said I'd go in because, from the way Belle talks, she's got strings in just about every town over on the other side of the Arkansas border, lawmen she claims she pays off to look the other way at her moonshining and selling stolen cattle.

A hundred years of moonshining, stealing, gunrunning, gambling, counterfeiting, whoring, bribing, even killing, and eventually drug manufacturing, and not a single arrest.

No Sackett had ever shot another, and I wasn't itching to be the first We'd never had much truck with those Clinch Mountain Sacketts, for they were a rough lot, having to do with moonshining and perambulating up and down the Wilderness Trail or the Natchez Trace for no good purpose.

Even those Clinch Mountain Sacketts, who were a cattle-rustling, moonshining lot, would stand fast in a showdown, and they'd never go back on their word or fail a friend.

This time -- it isn't raining snowing moonshining -- someone besides God in His heaven is looking on: Pluto on four legs.