moonshiners

One of the moonshiners is Hooks, who died in 2004.

Still and All, a Nice Tombstone 2006

He called the moonshiners 'cave a cellar, however, and declared that he went hunting for his mamma in a boat, and the counsel for the defence made the most of such puerilities and contradictions.

The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

But in another switcheroo, the best of the moonshiners is a teetotaler, so trustworthy that Betty let him babysit her infant.

prairiemary 2009

And they kept on buying – not only private individuals but any traders who could find sufficient storage space, and manufacturers who used sugar, to say nothing of beekeepers and "moonshiners", who need it to make illegal vodka.

Sweetness sours for Estonia Richard 2004

In earnest tones he besought his hearers to know that they are all included in the great invitation; the blacks as well as the whites, the poor farmer on the hills as well as the rich planter in the valley, the outcasts from society, such as moonshiners, horse thieves and gamblers, equally with the moral citizen who yet needed a personal deliverance from sin.

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

Many of the girls tell me that their fathers used to be "moonshiners," and they say that at that time they thought it all right; did not realize the evils of alcohol until taught about it in the school.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 Various

They are sensitive because they are observant and realize they have been criticized and misunderstood -- misclassed as a rare race of "moonshiners" and "feudists."

Sergeant York And His People

Tennessee Mountains_ and her other books have made the Northern public familiar with the wild life of the "moonshiners," who distill illicit whiskey in the mountains of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Murfree's _In the Tennessee Mountains_ and her other books, have made the Northern public familiar with the wild life of the "moonshiners," who distill illicit whiskey in the mountains of Georgia, North

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

There were among them many "moonshiners," as they were called, -- distillers of illicit whiskey, -- and they did not relish the idea of a federal excise.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871