cracksman
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The cracksman, instead of a black mask, put on a calf-skin waistcoat and a bottle-nose, and that passed muster for Cox by moonlight; it puzzled Cox by moonlight, and deceived Gardiner by moonlight.
From International Short Stories English by Various
Bradbury and his fellows went to work to find the old clergyman, alias cracksman.
From International Short Stories English by Various
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 Frank Henderson
The old cracksman had not warned him of that blinding flash or that sputtering, loud enough, so it seemed, to be heard a block away.
From The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller
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
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
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
He was one of the most accomplished cracksmen in England, and feats which seemed impossible to me would probably be the merest child's play to him.
From A Rogue by Compulsion by Victor Bridges
