The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher."
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
I back the dark horse; stake my soul against The odds: and I'll not grouse if life should prove A welsher in the end: I'll have had my fling, At least: and yet talk's cheap ...
"Krindlesyke"
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson