cracksman
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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
We were flattered by the attentions of a celebrated cracksman.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
Storri would have come oftener to observe how London Bill fared with his work, but the cracksman discountenanced the thought.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
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
She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
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
The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design.
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
He ran, and Mr Pickering, having followed him with the eye of fear, went rather shakily into the house, his brain whirling with professional cracksmen and gas pipes and assaulted butlers, to relate his adventure.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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