The 127 occurrences of hooker
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Of course, you want to be sure of your natural history facts and learn to distinguish between a cow that's a kicker, but whose intentions are good if she's approached with proper respect, and a hooker, who is vicious on general principles, and any way you come at her.
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I had seen some strange craft in my day; but nothing to beat the appearance this old tub of a hooker submitted to my gaze as I viewed her from the helm.
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Then he and his friends got into a hooker and sailed away and away to the westward, and were never heard of more.'
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I tell you, you're nothing better than nincompoops, hobbledehoys that knows no more about politics than the old hookers you're skippers of do."
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tables and at the races; fellows always on the look out to rob unwary countrymen at cards Hob, a bumpkin, a clodhopper Hobbled on the leg, a transported felon ironed on the leg, and sent on board the hulks Hog, a shilling Hog grabber, a sneaking mean fellow, a cadger Hog grunter, a close fisted narrow-souled, mean fellow Hoisters, shop-lifters, fellows who go into shops, and under the pretence of buying goods, generally conceal some article under the sleeves of the coat, mostly frequenting jeweller's shops Hoister mots, women who go into shops and steal some small article Holy land, St. Giles's, from St. Giles's being the patron saint of _beggars_ Hoofs, the feet Hoof it, to walk Hooked, overreached Hookers, thieves Hop, a sixpenny, a dancing room, where sixpence is the price of admission Hop merchant, a dancing master Hop the twig, run away Harness, watchmen, constables, police officers Hot flannel, liquor made of beer and gin, with eggs, sugar, and nutmeg Hue, to whip, lash Huff, a bullying, cowardly, fellow Huggar, drunk Hum box, pulpit Hum, a liar, a canting deceitful Wesleyan methodist Hum, to humbug, deceive Hums, people at church Humpty dumpty, boiled ale and brandy Hunting, drawing unwary people to play Hush still, quiet Hush money, money given to compound felony Huskey lour, a guinea, gold coin I.
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our Hookers, Heintzelmans, Hancocks, and men of like kidney?
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Then he and his friends got into a hooker, and sailed away and away to the westward, and were never heard of more.
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And so Casey Dunne dreamed as he rode--dreamed as he had not dreamed waking since the days when, a little boy, he had lain on warm sands beside a blue inland sea on summer's afternoons and watched the patched sails of the stone hookers, and the wheeling, gray lake gulls, and heard the water hiss and ripple to the long, white beaches.
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The little boy that lay on a lake shore years ago and watched the old stone hookers wallowing through the long swells doesn't seem to be Casey Dunne.
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"'F I got m' hookers on him, cuss me 'f I wudden' put bumps on him bigger'n yer hull body."
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"We must drive these little hookers through it for all they are worth, or we shall have the darkness upon us before we sight the ship," and he flung a somewhat anxious glance aloft at the heavy and rather threatening aspect of the sky.
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"Yes, you'll crack it some day," remarked Edna, "and then what would you do, miles from a hooker as you are?
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Either the sea has been too rough to ride to a slingstone[1] for blinn and conger, or else too calm, so that the mackerel hookers[2] could not sail out and therefore no fresh bait was to be had.
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Not that this is the whole explanation, nor in itself objectionable: the great mass of the world must be tended, soul and body, by those who are neither Hookers[345] nor Harveys[346]: let such persons not venture _ultra crepidam_, and they are useful and respectable.
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Hookers, or Anglers.
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I will take my prince's part against all that shall oppose him, or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability: nor will I suffer him, or any one belonging to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers whatever.
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were all our generals Hookers, and not Burnsides!
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I do not need a bracer to get me going or a hooker to keep me under way.
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Two hookers of Old Jordan from Black Jack renders him so plumb well he's reedic'lous.
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"'Accordin' to the Doc yere,' says Enright, as Peets ladles the invalid out a hooker of Old Jordan, 'that laig'll be so you can ride ag'in in a month.
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He went out in the hookers an' injoyed himself all to pieces, a dacent sthrip of a boy, but wid no more brains than a scalpeen (pickled mackerel).
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A few hookers are anchored near the swivel-bridge of the viaduct, in readiness for their cargoes of harvesters for England and Scotland, and now and then big trout and salmon throw themselves in air to see what is going on in the world around them.
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What they bought and sold, none of us were old enough to be a part of (though there were plenty of hookers our age plying their trade in the 'Loin.)
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That night it was a relief -- same old druggies and hookers and dealers and drunks.
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Justice forbid that I should run down a Hooker, a Barrow, a Taylor, or a South.
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There was a hooker somewhere, and they went about their business annoyed, angry, worried, but quiet.
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"Now if you should see, as you like enough may, When tramping the docks for a ship some fine day, A spanking full-rigger just ready for sea, And think she's just all that a hooker should be, Take 'eed you don't ship with a skipper that drinks-- You'd better by half play at fan-tan with Chinks!-- For that'll mean nothing but muddle an' mess, It may be much more and it can't be much less, What with wrangling and jangling to drive a man daft, And rank bad dis-cip-line both forrard and aft, A ship that's ill-found and a crew out of 'and, And a touch-and-go chance she may never reach land, But go down in a squall or broach to in a sea, For them drunken skippers--they're the devil," says he.