cracksman
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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 Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
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 W. L. Jacobs
I thought possibly you knew of some reformed cracksman who would do this one favor for me just to tide things over.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
He could be sure of only one thing: that never again could he be what he had been once—"the slickest cracksman in America."
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
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
From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public- house dancers, area-sneaks, designing young people who go out 'gonophing,' and other 'schools.'
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
