Then he returned to the Paddock, passing a bookie with uplifted hand of protest.
Such determination on so young a face the bookie thought he had never seen.
He wrote to the bookie and asked for the loan of $100.
The way that bookie hauled in the money on Gloster was a caution.
So the new bookie told the owner that he was on, took his $1,000, and figured on the pounding he was going to give the talent the next day.
Get on a winner at forty to one, and you could make as much in one bet as a poor devil of a bookie could in six months, fagging from race-course to race-course.
He's at every meeting as reg'lar as if he was a bookie himself.
Whereupon the Bookie told him to Back Up and Fade and do a Disappearing Specialty.
So he walked up to a Bookie and said to him: "I want to Bet Fifty Cents on Green Pill, and this is a Dollar here, so you want to give me Fifty Cents Change.
Does the bookie ask you how much coin you have and if you can afford to lose it?
The bookie looked just once at me, and I'll never forget how his eyebrows went together.
He say he know of what he call a bookie who is not a Welshman, and if Mutton Chop win, I multiply my savings one hundert times.
Then I take my savings from the bank and pawn my clothes, and much money goes to the bookie to back Mutton Chop.
We were given the back seats on Andy’s jobbed landau and pair, the bookie and his clerk facing us, and his “runner” sitting on the box.
That single afternoon would thus bring me in five hundred thousand pounds--provided the bookie did not blow his brains out.
Then there was an ear-splitting racket as the big bookie smashed the receiver back into the hook and turned purple faced toward us.
He's been in the "cigar store" bookie racket ever since repeal had closed a speakeasy he'd had on Grand Avenue.
The Bookie groaned, and Fuzzy clasped his arms tighter round his neck.
The Bookie looked at Fuzzy and tried to speak, but somehow he couldn't.
The child tried to turn him over on his back, but the Bookie being six foot two, and proportionately broad, and Fuzzy by no means tall for his age, this proved an impossible feat.
The Bookie did not answer, "he kind of snored" as Fuzzy afterwards described it.
The dogcart and horse were captured in an adjacent village, and the Bookie spent a month indoors.
The Bookie tried again to get up on to his feet, but something had gone wrong with his leg, as well as his arm, and after a few excruciating efforts he gave it up.
Finally, having embraced the Bookie several times, he trotted off down the lane and into the high road once more.
The Bookie took one of the little hands and carried it to his lips, saying brokenly, "Why do you love me, Fuzzy?
When the Bookie came to himself he lay still for a few minutes collecting his thoughts.
True, Tydeman was coming to the rescue, but that did not put Bookie Skarvan on his feet again; it only paid the bills, and saved Bookie Skarvan from being used as a street cleaning device in the shape of a human mop!
There was no one in the house to have heard the shots--Bookie Skarvan had settled that point--no one except Teresa upstairs.
In a little while, a few months, after he had paid his debt to Millman--he would pay his debt to Bookie Skarvan.
Bookie Skarvan, as he accompanied the other to the street.
The story rang true because it was almost true--only they had left Bookie Skarvan out of it.
He did not know why it was, but he could always see Bookie Skarvan in the darkness, though Bookie Skarvan could not see him.
Bookie Skarvan was not running away, because Bookie Skarvan did not even know that he was being followed--and yet Bookie Skarvan always eluded him.
He could afford to wait as far as Bookie Skarvan was concerned--he could not afford to wait where Millman was concerned.
Well, he asked no more than that--only that Bookie Skarvan did not get away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
