cracksman
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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
As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Who knew what eminent defaulter or renowned cracksman was fleeing the city in dark disguise?
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
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
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 John Kendrick Bangs
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
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
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
A thief, who—" "I don't mind, personally," interrupted Jimmy, "but I hope, if ever you mix with cracksmen, you won't go calling them thieves.
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
