cracksman

Example Sentences

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

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

She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette.

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

That was just his blague; he was having a good time, pretending to be what you took him for--an amateur cracksman; he made up that story to fool you.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

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 Henderson, Frank