cracksman

Example Sentences

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

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

"For the love of God get me a respite for the innocent man, and I will undertake to bring the crime home to the cracksman and to his confederate Cowen."

From International Short Stories English by Various

Bradbury had undertaken too much; his cracksman seemed to the King's advisers as shadowy as the double of Daniel Cox.

From International Short Stories English by Various

You may admire the exploits of a “gentleman” cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

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