housebreaking

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Herr Schmidt summoned police, who charged young Ferdinand Kovany with many housebreakings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they both agreed that if these rumours of housebreakings were continued, they would send away the plate some day to be locked up in safe keeping at Salisbury.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony