cracksman

Example Sentences

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No single cracksman paramount, no code, No master spirit, that will take the road, But equal dearth of pluck and highwaymen!”

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

That was just his blague; he was having a good time, pretending to be what you took him for--an amateur cracksman; he made up that story to fool you.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank

Entrance into his apartment was affected by an expert cracksman, the New York police say.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will