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Definition of Highfliers
1. highflier [n] - See also: highflier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highfliers
Literary usage of Highfliers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Disenssions of the Right and the by Thomas Embley Osmun (1909)
"... but the sooner these rhetorical highfliers stop inaugurating and content
themselves with simply beginning the things they are called upon to do in the ..."
2. Travels in America by Asa] [Greene (1833)
"The highfliers then were neither more nor less than disappointed Coots, as the
Coots had be«n disappointed Feds. Having stooped to the Bucktails, ..."
3. Richard Kennoway and His Friends by Katherine Steuart (1908)
"The highfliers in this instance were the mere tools of cleverer men than
themselves—it was declared a hundred times in ..."
4. Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1917)
"Some too who were not highfliers were more or Isss in sympathy with them. In 1679
a great controversy was started by the Letter to a Convocation Man, ..."
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