cutpurse

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Thy father's slayer is no mean reaver or cutpurse; yet, though we have him safe by the heels, manacled and leg-ironed, and threaten him with the thumbscrews, never a word can be wrung from him.

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For night was falling: where the fun of the fair was not were gloom and a rising wind, lurking cutpurses, and waste land.

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To the common risks of the road, deserted at that hour by all save cutpurses and rogues, was added a suspicion, as much more harassing than these, as unseen dangers ever surpass the known.

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The light-fingered art must have degenerated in Toledo since the day of that clever cutpurse of the "Exemplary Tales."

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In his last years he took it upon himself to make war on the cutpurses and “conny-catchers” with whom he came into contact in the slums, and whose doings he fearlessly exposed in his writings.

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