blacklegs

'Whom, when we sporting gentlemen are absent, you call blacklegs, rooks, Grecians, and other pleasant epithets.

The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777

He had promised that if the men wanted a struggle he would put up the best fight they had ever had, and he had been active all that afternoon in meeting the quarrel half way, and preparing as conspicuously as possible for the scratch force of "blacklegs" -- as we called them -- who were, he said and we believed, to replace the strikers in his pits.

In the Days of the Comet 1906

The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin.

With Friends Like These… 2010

Women were wholly averse to being "blacklegs" in industry.

Women and War Work Helen Fraser

Cheers and compliments and pats on the back showered fast on the youthful "blacklegs," and tended greatly to exaggerate in their own eyes the importance of their action.

The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Talbot Baines Reed 1872

To steal a black cat, and bury it alive, is in the Irish Highlands, considered as a specific for a disorder in cattle, termed "blacklegs," which otherwise proves fatal.

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865

The "blacklegs" who refused to stop work were escorted to and from the works in Westwood by jeering strikers.

unknown title 2009

He established a set of rules, forbidding resort to violence, the molestation of "blacklegs," and the taking of alms, and requiring the strikers to remain firm no matter how long the strike took -- rules not too different from those that would be used in a strike by an occidental labor union. [

Introduction to Non-Violence Theodore Paullin

The female blacklegs, — filch like "Hell" - taught blades,

The Age Reviewed 2010

Poverty of the first kind belongs to the populace; the second kind is that of blacklegs, of kings, and of men of talent.

The Magic Skin 2007