sporting man

Being a sporting man, he offers to cut cards for his son.

I have one client, a sporting man, who would be very likely to take it up if we could agree upon terms.

Sporting men who expected some blood for their money, made from wartime contracts.

Then pointedly she turned away and addressed herself to the more sporting man on her left.

To dream of owning diamonds, portends the same for sporting men or women.

Riccardo is a sporting man, and he's participating in this game."

"Antonio, you strike me as being a sporting man.

Clarke said quietly: "It's easy to see you're not a sporting man, inspector."

Yesterday there was an old sporting man.

Briefly, it's a fable about the redemption of a sporting man who lives on the other side of the law.

For the remaining 47 years of his life, Wyatt Earp was to be a full-time sporting man.

The former dentist, by then known as a notorious killer, describes himself deliciously as "a sporting man."

He was very properly vehement against my turning into an idle sporting man, which then seemed my probable destination.

He fancies himself as a sporting man.'

It had been 30 years since i had heard it, surely the most sublime noise to enter the ear of sporting man.

Settlement afore midnight, did ye , a sporting man, at last!'

"Noted sporting man and big plunger, he was slain on the eve of what promised to be another clean-up.

Stonehewer, a "great sporting man" from a "good old Yorkshire family", owned her during her racing career.

He had his grandfather's ability and tact, and was the intimate of the best sporting men of his time.

"You are a sporting man, Officer McLanahan," he said-and attacked with the speed of a cobra.

There was a voluble outcry from the sporting man, but for answer the official shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the roofs of the carriages beneath.

From then on the captain was socially accepted as a sporting man and was in on a long string of jovial parties and meets.

"Sporting records, that's important, too; now how many men, sporting men even, are there who can say off-hand what horse won the Derby in any particular year?

The generation before Ali's knew Earp as a somewhat earthier character, a part-time peace officer and full-time "sporting man" in Tombstone, Ariz.

Edward VII and his companion "Sporting Joe" Aylesford are regarded as practitioners of the sporting man culture.