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Examples

  • Buying alcohol from a boot-legger in a dry county is illegal.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Buying alcohol from a boot-legger in a dry county is illegal.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Buying alcohol from a boot-legger in a dry county is illegal.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Finally the big-city boot-legger waters it down and sells it to the dregs of society!

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • The easiest way to do that in Mount Mark is to get after a boot-legger.

    Sunny Slopes Ethel Hueston

  • After the Factors, and following in the wake of the H.B.C., came the independent fur trader, the prospector and the boot-legger.

    Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

  • Jest you lay a finger on me, you damn timber-thievin 'boot-legger, an' I'll bust you one over the head with the peaked end of

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • All I've got's my flask — I don't suppose we could unearth the local boot-legger at six o'clock on a Sunday afternoon? "

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • All I've got's my flask — I don't suppose we could unearth the local boot-legger at six o'clock on a Sunday afternoon? "

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • "This outlaw, boot-legger, thief, and murderer was a respectable fellow once, the adopted son of a wealthy family back East, who began by spoiling him, lavished money on him, and let him have his own way in everything.

    A Master's Degree 1913

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