cracksman

Example Sentences

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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 Doyle, Richard

I thought possibly you knew of some reformed cracksman who would do this one favor for me just to tide things over.

From R. Holmes & Co. by Bangs, John Kendrick

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 Lynde, Francis

It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.”

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

That devil—that renegade—that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.