Crossword-Solution: JOCKEYED 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

But as no ties are binding among such a knot of villains, the rest of the conspirators were jockeyed by G--, who, in order to monopolize the advantage to himself, hurried his prize into the country, and secreted him even from his confederates, in a place of concealment one hundred miles from London, under the same ridiculous pretence of M--'s having taken out a writ against him, and of bailiffs being in pursuit of him everywhere round London.

Yasmini took her stand close to the gilded door, and Tess and Hasamurti watched the opportunity to come beside her--no very easy matter in a room where fifty women jockeyed for recognition and a private word.

But 'ware revenge if greater craft it is That jockeyed him to recognize defeat, Or greater force that overmastered his-- Efficiency more potent than deceit That craved his crown and won it! Safer the she-bear with her suckling young, Kinder the hooked shark from a yardarm hung, More rational a tiger by the hornets stung Than perfidy outcozened.

Byron were engaged with each other: Miss Thrale, who did not dance, was fairly jockeyed out of her place next me by Captain Bouchier, and the other young ladies were with their partners.

Here was he, a well-meaning youth who wanted to be on good terms with all the world, being jockeyed into slaughtering a kid whose batting he admired and whom personally he liked.