Their place was in some degree taken, or rather usurped, for it was without Doggie's volition, by "Taffy" Jones, once clerk to a firm of outside bookmakers.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
I see there are three bookmakers eating pork at my favorite table.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
They would seem to be bookmakers, exceedingly prosperous publicans, bunco-brokers, militant politicians-anything save of the Kingdom of Art.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday