They are great pushers in business, wire-pullers in politics, and in season and out of season stand by each other.
I sell Pribyl here a ton of nail-pullers at a time.
Many of the wives of these political wire-pullers are prominent in the Union.
Is it not because there are other hands on the rope, other pullers drawing in an exactly opposite direction?
There were other pullers at the rope that day, pulling with all their might in an exactly opposite direction.
When the students turned in that night, the wire-pullers had found a sufficient number of candidates for all the offices on the terms set forth in the compact, each of whom had promised to use his influence for the entire ticket.
In his day the so-called Democratic wire-pullers and the so-called Republican wire-pullers understood each other and divided the spoils.
The wire-pullers were not always the plenipotentiaries.
This amazing creation, which fitted in with the Balkanizing craze of the moment, was the work of a few wire-pullers in which the easy-going inhabitants had neither hand nor part.
BROWN, who was along with me, tried werry Hard to gammon me to bleeve as none of the pullers in the fust boat got nothink for winning, and that none of the pullers in the larst boat paid nothink for loosing!
It is all very well to talk bunkum on the platform, but the wire-pullers want cash for themselves and to work with.
It means education, alertness to guard against the insidious schemes of wire-pullers and pressmen, as well as of militarists and commercials.
I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew.
But we'll make sailors out of them, or boat-pullers at any rate.
An angry lot of men, boat-pullers and steerers as well as hunters, swarmed over our side.
One diversion of his, when we were in the midst of the herd and the sea was too rough to lower the boats, was to lower with two boat- pullers and a steerer and go out himself.
Some clever people assert that any horse can be held with a snaffle; but I am certain that pullers can, as a rule, be much better controlled by a curb, provided that it is properly put on.
In my travels abroad, I have ridden some extremely bad pullers which were said to bolt with men; but although I certainly had trouble with such animals, none of them succeeded in running away with me and taking me where they liked.
Defeated in a free council, the wire-pullers a few months later assembled a cabal of their own, and drew up a fourth creed, which a deputation of notorious Arianizers presented to Constans in Gaul as the genuine work of the council.
In December, 1823, General Jackson reappeared in Washington to take his seat in the Senate, to which he had been elected by his wire-pullers for the purpose of promoting his interests as a candidate for the Presidency.
The great political machine has many cranks, and the scheming of office-seekers, the manipulations of the caucus and convention, and the tactics resorted to on election day by wire-pullers and leaders are not exaggerations.
Cabs are not seen in the city, ricksha pullers doing the hack work.
A great many of the pullers wear neither clogs nor sandals, their feet being covered with a cloth slipper.
Each team runs about five miles, when three fresh pullers take charge of the vehicle; then the passenger will again spin along the road at a speed of five miles an hour, cheered by the tunes of the natives.
Both chair carriers and ricksha pullers are in their bare feet.
A great many of the pullers of Japan have no shoes on their feet, but wear cloth, generally white, for protection.
The ricksha pullers of Kobe were an improvement on some of the starved Chinese pullers of Shanghai.
The condition of the ricksha pullers of Shanghai is pitiable.
The noise and rattle a group of pullers make in approaching sounds almost like a collision between two railway trains.
Zulus go as fast and as far with two fares as the pullers of other countries do with one passenger.
Ricksha pullers are as numerous as flies and very annoying, as they follow one about the streets for an hour in the hope that the visitor will patronize the two-wheeled sulky.
You'd rather be dead than go to Siberia," one of the boat-pullers said.
The vice-presidentship being a sinecure, a second-rate man agreeable to the wire-pullers is always smuggled in.
While this merry crowd of cooks and pullers is working and frolicking in the kitchen, under Norah's watchful eye, a few of the company may be found in other parts of the old mansion, amusing themselves in their own fashion.
Here very fierce conflicts occur between the wire-pullers themselves, and these are frequently decided by votes as close as majorities of one, or two.
Primary meetings are called, at which no one is ever present, but the wire-pullers and their puppets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pullers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
