picklock

Example Sentences

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With bright humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'Brien pulled out his picklocks to pick it, but without success; here we were fast.

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick

O’Brien pulled out his picklocks to pick it, but without success; here we were fast.

From Peter Simple by Marryat, Frederick

"I fear," said she, "that10 they live in hopes that some will come to relieve them, or that they have picklocks about them, by the means of which they hope to escape."

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

Who could know such a thing, when there are almost more Chamberlains than picklocks among us?--

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul