cracksman

Example Sentences

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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 Oemler, Marie Conway

On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank

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 Miller, Henry Russell

It was then they learned that an expert cracksman had entered, that an expert had opened the safe without blowing it open or forcing it open.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will

Bob and the cracksman had two years longer; but as they managed to secure the convict's prize, they were sent out to Australia, and were liberated, I believe, two years before me.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank