cracksman
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On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape.
From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Frank Henderson
As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Bradbury and his fellows went to work to find the old clergyman, alias cracksman.
From International Short Stories English by Various
Our cracksman worked slowly and surely, laying the bricks in the bottom of the drain so as to form a floor on which to stand.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
I've seen many Page 268a clever cracksman, but never one like him.
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jason Statham, ever the East End Bruce Willis, leads the amateur cracksmen as they get tangled in about 56 subplots involving MI5, good and bad cops, porn dealers, black radicals and jealous wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was one of the most accomplished cracksmen in England, and feats which seemed impossible to me would probably be the merest child's play to him.
From A Rogue by Compulsion by Victor Bridges
