cracksman

Example Sentences

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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.

Who knew what eminent defaulter or renowned cracksman was fleeing the city in dark disguise?

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)

It was then they learned that an expert cracksman had entered, that an expert had opened the safe without blowing it open or forcing it open.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will

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 Henderson, Frank

She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.