cracksman
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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 Sax Rohmer
The professional cracksman would probably have shaved, whereupon the first amateur detective he met would reconstruct the beard on the sunburned lines.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
No single cracksman paramount, no code, No master spirit, that will take the road, But equal dearth of pluck and highwaymen!”
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
Bat waved a hand and the cracksman disappeared through a door upon which was painted the word "Private."
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
He could be sure of only one thing: that never again could he be what he had been once—"the slickest cracksman in America."
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jason Statham, ever the East End Bruce Willis, leads the amateur cracksmen as they get tangled in about 56 subplots involving MI5, good and bad cops, porn dealers, black radicals and jealous wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I wanted to ask about any cracksmen who might be in town at this time," said the investigator.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
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