"He must be a high-flyer of a cat," and the old man chuckled over his joke.

I ain't no high-flyer myse'f. I fear'd ter shake han's wid you so fur off, Brer Rabbit.'

She certainly was not one of the high-flyer yachts which had been bought up for service in the Confederate navy.

Here we have our author in evening dress, passing as a man of society at a banquet of the rich, shadowing a "high-flyer" crook.