cracksman
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You may admire the exploits of a “gentleman” cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
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 William Harrison Ainsworth
Under the very nose of the cracksman, too!
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
Entrance into his apartment was affected by an expert cracksman, the New York police say.
From Death Points a Finger by Will Levinrew
It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
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
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
On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen.
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
Two well-known cracksmen, Badger and the Dook! why, there’s Jack in the Orchard at once.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
