jackleg

We passed the jackleg backwoods church with all the signs again.

I'm a good engineer and a fair jackleg mechanic when I have to be.

But why stop there when we could take another couple of weeks and build a jackleg waterwheel, right?

The industry association can do little to "get rid of jackleg outfits who prey on military people," he said.

They both headed down that way, each getting a large cup of coffee at the Starbucks as a jackleg disguise.

I was a good jackleg doctor, Minerva.

Reading palms in saloons and a little jackleg horoscopy is about all he's good for.

Perforce, we became a pair of jackleg xenologists.

'Billy's sort of a backslider, a jackleg as the other Mormons call him."

If you'll let J. C. make his own choice and take them two jackleg saints up the hill there, the school land is yours."

Not the jackleg, bread-boarded, jury-rigged first model Miles and Belle had stolen from me, of course not.

It was cut and try, with a literal infinity of choices and only a few jackleg estimates to rule out some of the possibilities.

It contained two additional songs: A live version of Break and the studio outtake Jackleg Man.

He was a doer, not a thinker; his skills were the skills of an artisan, a tinkerer, a jackleg mechanic.

You know how I've perforce become a fairly good jackleg physician, in case she-she-Well, she'll've had a rough time at best."

An impressive debut by any standards, the session kicks off with Jack's blazing Jackleg which gallops ferociously from the starting gate.

Mosely, here, is a fair jackleg doctor and he says he feels confident that he can do all that is needed.

Batbaian, a skillful jackleg tailor, sewed scraped sheepskins together into cloaks the two wanderers wore over their greatcoats.

Being a crew chief, Newman is a jackleg engineer, a good practical 'troncist, and a rule-of-thumb astrogator, and we're computing every element of the flight.

Itinerant jackleg preachers like Blind Willie Johnson and Washington Phillips released recordings that are now collector's items but were then only marginally popular.

He has been told many a time how the born- and-trained novelist works; won't he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jackleg does it?

On a recent morning, sweat poured off their faces as they lifted a traditional two-man jackleg drill to install a metal brace to keep loose rock from falling on them.

Even a jackleg carpenter like Vic Palfrey could (gimme the funnies Vic you had em long enough) (Mamma he took my funnypages!

His daddy'd been a jackleg preacher when he wasn't hard at work at his real job, and in his youth Elkanah had heard all about Hell and its creatures.

I stood by the stairwell and said nothing, my heart all tangled in the stink of Smee's black-market smoke--in the burnt-wood fragrance of jackleg whiskey, the memory of corded hands.