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Definition of Highflyers
1. highflyer [n] - See also: highflyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highflyers
Literary usage of Highflyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"And when on the last occasion an attempt was made by the highflyers to tack it
on to a money bill, the epithets of Tackers and Non-tackers, so prevalent for ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"He dreaded the highflyers, not only for le galling restraint which they placed
upon private life, not only Or their bitterness and rancour and hypocrisy, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"And when on the last occasion an attempt was made by the highflyers to tack it
on to a Money Bill, the epithets of Tackers and Non-tackers, so prevalent for ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"In another place, he incidently alludes to the same subject, when a fitting
opponent was found to the reverend sandbank of the highflyers :—" Dr Patrick ..."
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