high-flyer

How to use high-flyer in a sentence

• I aint no high-flyer myse'f. I fear'd ter shake han's wid you so fur off, Brer Rabbit.'

  Nights With Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler Harris

• "You must have been a real 'gun,' a regular high-flyer, in your good days," she whispered.

  To Him That Hath | Leroy Scott

• Here we have our author in evening dress, passing as a man of society at a banquet of the rich, shadowing a "high-flyer" crook.

  Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. Wooldridge

• He is a high flyer, sailing about over our heads in the afternoon or evening.

  The Children's Book of Birds | Olive Thorne Miller

• She certainly was not one of the high-flyer yachts which had been bought up for service in the Confederate navy.

  On The Blockade | Oliver Optic