cutpurse
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It will tell the stories of 25 women who have been overlooked by history, from the 17th-century pickpocket Moll Cutpurse to the 19th-century pirate Ching Shih.
From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2017
Instead of bidding them escape forthwith from Cutpurse Row, he had told them to avoid their homes.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
His acquaintance with Moll Cutpurse, casually begun at a bull-baiting, speedily ripened, for her into friendship, for him into love.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles
THE most illustrious woman of an illustrious age, Moll Cutpurse has never lacked the recognition due to her genius.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles
A vice of Kings, A Cutpurse of the Empire and the Rule.
From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William
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