cracksman

Example Sentences

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With the treasures of the nation thus at my mercy, am I a common cracksman?

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

Who would connect that all too common occurrence, a tramp maimed by the railroad, with, the mysterious disappearance of the cracksman, Slippy McGee?

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway

That devil—that renegade—that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here.

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

All we regret is, that we are now degenerated from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak, about whom there are no redeeming features.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The cracksman, instead of a black mask, put on a calf-skin waistcoat and a bottle-nose, and that passed muster for Cox by moonlight; it puzzled Cox by moonlight, and deceived Gardiner by moonlight.

From International Short Stories English by Various