And where, assuming this was so, had the bootleggers secured the vessel?
I spoke to Henderson about your idea that the bootleggers were using radio and he says he should not be a bit surprised.
I kinder guess them racketeers an' their crowd o' bootleggers must a got things mighty near sewed up, when the Department lets us loaf away our time out here on the Gold Coast.
You can ask anybody if I didn't do every thing possible to git in bad or give bootleggers a tip I was one of 'em.
Make me choose between bootleggers an' cops, an' I'd have to flip a dollar on it.
Meaning that you'd refuse to help me round up bootleggers and the officers that protect them?
Before you do that, I'll tell you this much to show good faith and prove to you how much I trust you: I'm an officer, and my special work right now is to clean up a gang of bootleggers and the crooked officers who are protecting them.
Hawkins and his crew of gamblers and bootleggers were sentenced to two years apiece, as only misdemeanor charges could be preferred against them.
Harry shouted, himself seizing and hurling the bootleggers back into the room.
Unless I'm very greatly in error the gamblers and bootleggers will try to start up matters again to-night in camp.
Hawkins and his fellow gamblers and bootleggers were arraigned and held in one thousand dollars' bail each for trial.
Tom Reade now had the six gamblers and the two bootleggers in the room with him.
Dem gamblers an' bootleggers ain' done got bail yet, has they, sah?
At first these bootleggers operated individually, and elsewhere in the Nation that is still largely their method.
But, as soon as the prohibition law went into effect, in every city in the country bootleggers sprang up.
The power of these bootleggers reaches far, and goes into high places.
But here in New York there have been increasing evidences lately that some organizing genius had taken charge of the situation and was swiftly bending other bootleggers to his will.
They are not moonshiners or smugglers or bootleggers; they are the people upon whose patronage or connivance the moonshiners and smugglers and bootleggers depend for their business.
All of which was the cause of no little trouble to the agent and the Indian police, for bootleggers found it easy to operate from White Lodge or Talpers's and drop back again across the line to safety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootleggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
