cutpurse

Example Sentences

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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents:

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Now, Eugene wishes to gain a final rest from the cycle, to be released from the emotional burden he has carried since his days as a cutpurse in Moorish Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

And the most ridiculous handball of all time, Raúl's cheeky chip and Andriy Shevchenko the cutpurse all star in this week's YouTube round-up.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010

The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You'll have every cutpurse within a league down upon us!"

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood