housebreaker
Example Sentences
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A hapless housebreaker and a credulous co-conspirator, his criminal misadventures were equaled only by his skill escaping from the dungeons and bagnes that passed for a penal system in the pre-Napoleonic era.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2011
In his bedroom there stood a wardrobe constructed by William Brodie, and young Stevenson's nanny would tell him the story of Brodie, who had been a respected citizen by day but housebreaker by night.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2010
He did not think, he said, that a policeman would be very effective if, on seeing a housebreaker, he would first have to call a meeting of the town council to get a warrant.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Thief, the subject for study is Jean-Paul Belmondo, an impenitent housebreaker operating in the gleaming fin de siecle Paris of Lautrec and Bonnard.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now suppose that you were, in truth, the owner of that house, and could not still get in; and think there was to you no conscience of the housebreaker, what would you do?”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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