The bookies listened to the man with gradually increasing smiles, and when he finished they gave him the laugh in chorus.
I went around and did my own collecting, and several of the poor devils of bookies had to go out of business after the rest of the boys that I had put on to the thing came along and cashed their tickets.
We all got on at that figure, the bookies giving us the laugh at first, and only a few of them wise enough to rub when they suspected that there was something doing.
I knew that the bookies would be dead to Jodan, but I didn't think they'd take the liberties they did with him.
The bookies all turned their faces the other way, then, and when the man with the pair of hocked nags saw that it wasn't any use he dug his hands into his pockets disconsolately and shambled out.
The bookies made all colors of a howl over it, but their howls didn't go.
If they're going to burn the bookies out on Mazie V.
The other bookies over his way looked as if they thought he was wheely, but he only exulted whole lots inside of him.
The bookiesall looked at the man as if he were demented.
The looks the bookies gave the shabby-looking man were intended to convey to him the idea that they weren't publicly posing as hot tamales, anyhow.
Say, I couldn't get within twenty feet of a one of the twelve bookies doing business.
Sure didn't I bate the bookies blind on Rosebud but yesterday--or was it the day before?
You can't bet them bookies nothin'--they're wise to him.
He was hearing the odds which the bookies offered; he was watching those odds drop by leaps and bounds as he hammered away at them, betting in lumps of hundreds and five hundreds, staking his fortune on his first "sure thing.
A good day for the bookies if that old cripple, Lady Beck, had found her running legs.
Nor that track fortunes are only made by bookies or exceptionally wealthy or brainy owners; that a plunger comes out on top once in a million times.
One paper hints that the stable was in on it; wanted to hit the bookies hard," put in his companion diffidently.
But eventually the bookies have always got their own back again—and a bit over and above.
There'll be some scene-shifting there by now, and the bookies working the oracle, for the news was flying when I came away that my mare was to be scratched.
Where Cranly led me to get rich quick, hunting his winners among the mudsplashed brakes, amid the bawls of bookies on their pitches and reek of the canteen, over the motley slush.
Let's say for a joke, like, for laughs, that I am some kind of a wheel in these things, in bookies and numbers boys and like that.
And what is this that flashes to the front, while the howls of the bookies rise like the yelping of fiends in torment?
The bookies thought that Blinky Bill had sold them, and they discarded him for ever.
The gold-brick man will give it to the bookies and the bookies will lose it on stud poker.
The bookies had nearly all come from Memphis, and were thoroughly imbued with the belief that no horse on earth could beat Lieber Karl, and that every dollar they bet against him was thrown away.
Then the storm broke, and the bookies who had made millions over the defeat of the favourite led the roar.
The voices of the bookies were raised vociferously.
The American contingent breathed afresh, and the bookies were looking glum.
Then English and Americans, bookies and backers, began to bawl against each other.
What the bookies were yelling nobody could hear; but it was clear from their faces that they believed the favourite was beat.
And the bookies laughed and the bookies chaffed, 'Who backs the mare?
The tipsters were touting, the bookies were shouting 'Bar one, bar one, bar one!
The bookies are raving, the ladies are waving, The Stand is all shouting for Jo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
