rifler

Example Sentences

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Had that midnight rifler of safes and vaults been any other on earth than the man he was, the old retainer would have rushed upon him and struck to save the Weymouth property.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

Out of regard, then, for the great Liberal minister, and also because I am no rifler of nests, I seized my old black hat and a camera, and dashed downstairs.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

He was A graveyard rifler on his father's side.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

Doubts were to come later when he was away from her, when he had had leisure to consider that she might regard him in the light of a third potential rifler of her father's treasure-house.

From Tales of Chinatown by Rohmer, Sax

A rifler of the roads become a great lord?

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart