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- noun Alternative spelling of
horsetrader .
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Examples
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And I remember, on a time, long after the drift when we brought the barley into India, that I came down into India, a horse-trader, with many servants and a long caravan at my back, and that at that time they were worshipping Bodhisatwa.
Chapter 21 2010
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An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship.
Dan Rostenkowski, 82; powerful committee chairman in U.S. House 2010
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An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship.
Dan Rostenkowski, 82; powerful committee chairman in U.S. House 2010
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An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship.
Dan Rostenkowski, 82; powerful committee chairman in U.S. House 2010
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An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship.
Dan Rostenkowski, 82; powerful committee chairman in U.S. House 2010
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An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship.
Dan Rostenkowski, 82; powerful committee chairman in U.S. House 2010
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She weaves together text and argument from sources as diverse as Kipling's "Kim" (Mahbub Ali, remember, Kim's friend and sometime employer, is a horse-trader) and the Hindu epic "Ramayana," in which a horse is sacrificed after Rama, the protagonist god-king, returns from exile.
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, might be an expert horse-trader at European summits, but has he ever addressed a joint session of the US Congress?
The Tories’ push to scupper President Blair is the highest form of flattery 2009
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In the past, Kim has also run errands for Mahbub Ali, a Pathan horse-trader who works for the British secret service.
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008
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He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson
Main Street 2004
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