Sentence examples for of bookie from inspiring English sources

Another type of bookie is "the agnostic entrepreneur," for whom bookmaking is merely another business opportunity.

"The Snatching of Bookie Bob" sets a familiar scene: "Now it comes on the spring of 1931, after a long hard winter, and times are very tough indeed, what with the stock market going all to pieces, and banks busting right and left, and the law getting very nasty about this and that, and one thing and another, and many citizens of this town are compelled to do the best they can.

But of course, the erosion of bookie culture is not a sound legal argument.

"At the time of Bookie's death, I just went by what we were told," she said.

"At the time of Bookie's death, I just went by what we were told," Barnes said.

We met on the rooftop terrace of Bookie's Bar and Grille, a sports bar repurposed for the occasion to host Stomp the House 6, the annual house jam organized by Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale and Dee Jones as a Sunday night after party.

In the absence of bookies, or races, many wait all year for a bet.

Day two of the tennis, day one of bookies' favourite Tim Henman.

Betting lore is rife with stories of bookies who tempted fate and lost.

Off-track betting was illegal, so there were a lot of bookies, a lot of gangsters with guns.

Rank and 888 Holdings want the chain of bookies to join a three-way mashup to pursue benefits of scale.