cracksman

Example Sentences

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Our cracksman worked slowly and surely, laying the bricks in the bottom of the drain so as to form a floor on which to stand.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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

Bat waved a hand and the cracksman disappeared through a door upon which was painted the word "Private."

From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by McIntyre, John T.

It was then they learned that an expert cracksman had entered, that an expert had opened the safe without blowing it open or forcing it open.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will

Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank