There he is hailed as a good brother by his fellow members, many of whom are as great, if not as successful, a grafter as he is.
Wherever he turns he sees a grafterin the road before him.
It was a rhetorical and sensational sentence in which a recent speaker in this city declared that the worst grafter is the man who does not vote.
The cheap little grafter who takes dollars, dimes, nickels and pennies from the poor, while not exactly a great financier, is one of the smoothest propositions with which secret service men and federal inspectors are confronted.
The facts disclosed by these raids were enough to fill the heart of the blackest grafterwith indignation and a desire to trounce the perpetrators.
It is easy enough to cry out against the grafterin official position who puts his hand into the public treasury.
The author reveals and exposes the Grafter with his schemes, his traps, his pitfalls and his victims.
If, then, a citizen is content to enjoy the comforts and the quiet of American life without rendering any return therefor, he may justly be called a grafter, and a grafter of that worst sort, who robs his benefactor.
He apparently walks into it; but, in a few minutes, the grafter finds himself on the way to prison.
But in the following letters we have an excellent example of the second type, the little grafter who wants anything you can give, from $5 to $100.
Graft in its nakedness, has been exposed and the people are aroused, fearing that the grafter has sucked the life blood of the republic.
You see before you two grafters from Graftersville, Grafter County, Arkansas.
It's no place for an honest grafter with a small capital.
No grafter except a boy who is soliciting subscribers to an illustrated weekly to win the prize air rifle, or a widow, would have the heart to tamper with the man behind with the razor.
Payne, probably the most successful walnut grafter in the business.
Any grafter that tries to hand me the worst of it is going to find himself sucking at the sour end of a lemon,----quick.
I had a nice clean business planned here, but the village grafter tried to jiu-jitsu me, so I just naturally had to jolt him one.
It is done in this way: a grafter becomes an assemblyman, and with others lays a plan of graft.
If the man becomes a grafter or thief, the President is attacked by the opposition.
The grafter has no idea that it will pass, but it is made much of, and of course reaches our ears, and the question is how to stop it.
But I'll say that next to you Curtis Gordon is the worstgrafter I ever saw.
When the stocks and scions are prepared and graded the grafter takes a box of stocks and a box of the corresponding size of scions and unites them.
A skillful grafter will make about one hundred tongue grafts on cuttings per hour, or from sixty-five to seventy-five per hour if he does the tying as well.
In the past the successful tree grafter was a specially skilled man.
The bark slot graft is the easiest of all and readily mastered once the grafter learns to shape a true scion.
Pogue is a conscientious grafter of the highest type.
Fable of the City Grafter and the Unprotected Rubes.
An infallible recipe for the cure of ague is said to be the following: Go to a grafter of trees, and tell him your complaint.
You go home, and in your absence the grafter cuts the first branch of a maiden ash, and the cure takes place instantly on cutting the branch from the tree.
The Boss Grafter Eliph' Hewlitt was resolved that into this interview no words regarding Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art should enter.
Then for the ordinance-wanting man does the boss grafter get one ordinance made like is wanted.
To the boss graftergives the ordinance-wanting man a graft.
When the boss grafterdoes not so, what use is the grafts?
How this one was secured I do not know; but intelligent people ought to know that cases of tapeworm are not so common that eight people out of every ten have one, as this grafter positively asserted.
Going back to the physician who has the well-equipped office, is he a grafter in any sense?
There is another trump card the traveling medical grafter plays, which wins about as well as the guaranteed rheumatism cure, namely, the tapeworm fraud.
Grafter was an angel of mercy sent to deliver him from the awful fate of living where "the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Strange as it may seem, the fact that a professional man is a notorious grafter abroad does not necessarily deprive him of social standing at home.
The grafter is abroad in the land like a wolf seeking whom he may devour, and the sheep-skin (sometimes a diploma) that once disguised his wolfish character has become so tattered by much use that it now deceives only the most foolish sheep.
And he knows that this grafter gets his wonderful cures largely as any other quack gets his; the primary effects of his "scientific manipulations" are on the minds of those treated.
The field for detectives for this class of work is unlimited, remuneration is the best, and better still, the grafter is by far the easiest of all criminals to catch.
One good way for the detective to secure evidence against a grafter is to first form his acquaintance, then lead him to believe, and make it plain to him that he also is a grafter, or at least willing to be one.
The reason probably is because the grafter of today usually moves in the best society and often holds a position of trust, which facts tend to divert suspicion from him and from his crooked dealings.
After such confidence is established, an arrangement should be made for making any payments of money to the grafter at such a place and in such a manner that it can be substantially corroborated.
Those with any faith in the black arts credited the aged negress with being an adept in her particular line, but others with more common sense and less superstition considered her a grafter of remarkable ability.
A bum city solicitor," said Mr. Overend, "and an infernal grafter for treasurer.
Finally I ran onto an "Oklahoma" grafter by the name of Nunemaker.
Don't you know that man Nunemaker is the biggestgrafter in Oristown?
A good grafter makes a cion by three strokes of the knife, one to cut off the cion and two to shape it.
The cions are all whittled before the grafter enters the tree.
Much depends upon the size of the trees, their shape, and the amount of pruning which must be done before the grafter can work in them handily.
Neither am I the prize littlegrafter of the world.
I tell him he's the littlest man and the biggestgrafter in this show.
When in prison a grafter continually thinks about his old pals and hang-outs, and the last scenes familiar to him before he went to stir.
The result was that I grew to think the career of the grafter was the only one worth trying for.
Before we reached Buffalo a feeling came over me that I had better not work in that town; so Joe, Dan and an English grafter we had picked up, named Scotty, stopped at Buffalo, and Patsy and I went on.
The capital of a grafter is called "spring-money," for he may have to use it at any time in paying the lawyer who gets him off in case of an arrest, or in bribing the policeman or some other official.
Then the graftertakes the sick man to his house and keeps him out of sight.
A grafter who follows the business for years is a study in psychology, and his two most prominent characteristics are fear and suspicion.
A fly-cop gets many a tip from some tid-bit in whom a grafter has reposed confidence.
The old grafter called to one of the Tenderloin girls that he had a kid with him who was arrested for Moll-buzzing.
She remained faithful to Johnny, although many a goodgrafter tried to make up to the pretty girl.
After I met the Haymarket grafter I used to jump out to neighboring cities on very profitable business.
A grafter on the outside, Tommy, sent through the Underground a pawn ticket for some valuable goods, among them a sealskin sacque worth three hundred dollars, which he had stolen and hocked in Philadelphia.
The lady looked upon the grafter she had met as a novelty.
Sympathy with a grafter who is trying to square it is a tonic to his better self.
In her way she was as clever a grafter as Sheenie Annie.
Among these an ancient grafter was one of the most important, and April was the month which brought him to Aldington.
Of course, I am supposing that the grafter is so fortunate as to be able to make his own selection of the wood desired; if not, then he may be compelled to do the best he can with that obtained elsewhere.
Call the man a thief and grafter if you will, but the laws of centuries protect him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grafter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: booster; crook; ghoul; grafter; lifter; poacher; prowler; robber; shoplifter; swindler
