| 单词 | cracksman |
| 例句 | After a series of remarkable events their trip ended with the capture of a society “cracksman,” known to the police as the “Boy Raffles.” The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z He had had on board escaping murderers, defaulting company promoters, fraudulent trustees, absconding cashiers, and a variety of other criminals from the "flash" cracksman to the common "lag". The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z But unless he happens to leave his name and address a cracksman working on a fair sized crib is never caught. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Now, suppose that a descent were made on the largest one of these safe depositories in America, the one under the New York Stock Exchange, and by a dozen first-class cracksmen. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z With improvements in safes there has come a corresponding improvement in cracksmen’s methods. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z I’ve never been afraid of any ordinary cracksman’s attempt against that vault; but, if I am right now, this wouldn’t be any ordinary attempt. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z And so are they, jemmies, cold chisels, skeleton keys—in short, every implement of the cracksman's calling. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z If only accurate statistics were available, I would wager and win on the proposition that not half of 1 per cent of all the cracksmen in America have ever seen Alias Jimmy Valentine. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z And so are they, jemmies, cold chisels, skeleton keys—in short, every implement of the cracksman’s calling. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z That member there with close-cropped hair, Who noisily inhales his luncheon, His flattened nose has felt the blows Of many a p'liceman's truncheon; The premier cracksman of the City, Is Chairman of our House Committee! Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z There's some as once wos gentlemen When cracksmen's art was balmy, Now shame us all by fig'ring as Contractors for the army! The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z He stole the match, the greatest criminal in cricket kit since Raffles the amateur cracksman last delivered a leg-break. How Mike Hussey's brilliance re-wrote a plot that had already been written 2010-05-15T10:24:00Z "And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 Who knew what eminent defaulter or renowned cracksman was fleeing the city in dark disguise? A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Bradbury had undertaken too much; his cracksman seemed to the King's advisers as shadowy as the double of Daniel Cox. International Short Stories English "I wanted to ask about any cracksmen who might be in town at this time," said the investigator. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Two well-known cracksmen, Badger and the Dook! why, there’s Jack in the Orchard at once. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, has only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It was then they learned that an expert cracksman had entered, that an expert had opened the safe without blowing it open or forcing it open. Death Points a Finger This man was no clerk, but, as I believe, the cracksman that did the job at the 'Swan.' International Short Stories English Bat waved a hand and the cracksman disappeared through a door upon which was painted the word "Private." Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist 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. Nobody And to have the whole blessed country terrorized, the police defied, and people's houses invaded with impunity by a gutter-bred brute of a cracksman is nothing short of a scandal and a shame! Cleek, the Master Detective Entrance into his apartment was affected by an expert cracksman, the New York police say. Death Points a Finger Bradbury and his fellows went to work to find the old clergyman, alias cracksman. International Short Stories English "A cracksman's outfit!" murmured Bat, a feeling of disappointment running through him. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist "It has been amusing to play the part you assigned me of amateur cracksman, but really, I'm afraid, it can't be done without a better make-up." Nobody You would not think of calling a great violinist like Paganini a 'fiddler,'" he wrote; "why, then, should you degrade me with the coarse term of 'cracksman'? Cleek, the Master Detective You may admire the exploits of a “gentleman” cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The cracksman opened the door with his tools, unless Cowen made him duplicate keys. International Short Stories English It was the cracksman who had spoken of the undependability of women. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.” 'Firebrand' Trevison The skill and daring of the cracksman makes him a marked man. American Sketches 1908 He picks up with a couple of regular cracksmen, and tells all he knows about the house, and they put up the job.” The Dark House A Knot Unravelled The cracksman, instead of a black mask, put on a calf-skin waistcoat and a bottle-nose, and that passed muster for Cox by moonlight; it puzzled Cox by moonlight, and deceived Gardiner by moonlight. International Short Stories English He had a gun, but a knife, the old cracksman had said, was much better for a fight in the dark and it had the superlative virtue of noiselessness. The House of Toys All we regret is, that we are now degenerated from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak, about whom there are no redeeming features. Rookwood We were flattered by the attentions of a celebrated cracksman. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden We started to light our pipe, and then it occurred to us that perhaps that would be regarded as the gesture of a hardened cracksman, seeking to appear at his ease. Pipefuls "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." International Short Stories English The old cracksman had not warned him of that blinding flash or that sputtering, loud enough, so it seemed, to be heard a block away. The House of Toys "There can be no doubt but that the burglary is the work of professional cracksmen." The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. With the treasures of the nation thus at my mercy, am I a common cracksman? The Sins of Séverac Bablon In this prison I also made the acquaintance of a professional "cracksman," or burglar. Six Years in the Prisons of England I thought possibly you knew of some reformed cracksman who would do this one favor for me just to tide things over. R. Holmes & Co. No single cracksman paramount, no code, No master spirit, that will take the road, But equal dearth of pluck and highwaymen!” The Bon Gaultier Ballads Since when have the honorable Outdoor Chums taken to cracksmen's ways, I'd like to know? The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery The professional cracksman would probably have shaved, whereupon the first amateur detective he met would reconstruct the beard on the sunburned lines. The Price On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape. Six Years in the Prisons of England Storri would have come oftener to observe how London Bill fared with his work, but the cracksman discountenanced the thought. The President A novel It was evident, from the man's manner, that he believed his passengers were cracksmen who had just successfully carried out an enterprise of importance. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain His presence in the pie pantry had been misinterpreted by a cracksman; and he, the harmless organist of Dr. Bulgerly's church, was claimed as the associate of a dangerous, perhaps notorious, thief. Visionaries And yet we have seen this cracksman captain—for he, too, was a captain at times—jostling and bellowing for odds among some of the highest and noblest of the land! Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Meanwhile the "cracksman," whose cell was opposite, was to unlock the cell doors of all the prisoners in the plot. Six Years in the Prisons of England Our cracksman worked slowly and surely, laying the bricks in the bottom of the drain so as to form a floor on which to stand. The President A novel And so this is my reward for having made you the tip-top cracksman you are," muttered Blueskin;—"to be turned off at a moment's notice, because I silenced a noisy woman. Jack Sheppard A Romance “Boot-legging” is a common subsidiary occupation for the pander, the thief and the cracksman. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 If such a man as this ever stepped over the deadline he would not be merely "the slickest cracksman in America"; he would be one of the master criminals of the earth. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Bob and the cracksman had two years longer; but as they managed to secure the convict's prize, they were sent out to Australia, and were liberated, I believe, two years before me. Six Years in the Prisons of England The man on the right is Mr. C——, who they call the 'cracksman,' because formerly he was a professional housebreaker, but he has given up that trade, and turned gentleman, bets, and keeps a gaming-table. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities By the way they have gone about their business, I should say they were experienced cracksmen. Famous Modern Ghost Stories You would not think of calling Paganini a 'fiddler,'" he wrote; "why, then, should you degrade me with the coarse term of 'cracksman'? Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces He could be sure of only one thing: that never again could he be what he had been once—"the slickest cracksman in America." Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended. Six Years in the Prisons of England There's Billy Burke, as desperate a cracksman as the country can produce, with," complacently, "a record second to none in his class. Half A Chance He would narrate to us the doings and feats of mighty whips—notably of a never-to-be-forgotten dinner at the Pelican Inn, Newbury, to which were gathered the élite of the Bath-road cracksmen. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Under the very nose of the cracksman, too! Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Who would connect that all too common occurrence, a tramp maimed by the railroad, with, the mysterious disappearance of the cracksman, Slippy McGee? Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man It had a curious lock, which no other key than its own would fit—a lock that would have baffled even a "cracksman" and his whole bunch of skeleton keys. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 To her he had been Raffles, the amateur cracksman. Mary Minds Her Business It sounds good," Bunch acquiesced, "and I'll give you an imitation of the best little amateur cracksman that ever swung a jimmy. Back to the Woods And to have the whole blessed country terrorised, the police defied, and people's houses invaded with impunity by a gutter-bred brute of a cracksman is nothing short of a scandal and a shame! Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Exciting days at Newport followed, and the four girls brought to bay the "Boy Raffles," the cracksman, who had puzzled the fashionable world! The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies “Give it up—whatever it is,” he said in an admonishing tone, but not so kindly as if he were condescending to give good advice to a cracksman of repute. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public- house dancers, area-sneaks, designing young people who go out 'gonophing,' and other 'schools.' Reprinted Pieces Surely, not even an amateur cracksman would give himself and the whole snap away unless the provocation was great. Back to the Woods But, my dear fellow, why speak of your 'vanishing cracksman' days when you have so utterly put them behind you, and since lived a life beyond reproach? Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces This person appears to have been none other that Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Two well-known cracksmen, Badger and the Dook! why, there's Jack in the Orchard at once. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson I was a good cracksman, honest I was. The Cruise of the Jasper B. Old Baird has at last spotted that I'm not quite the common cracksman I would have him think me. The Amateur Cracksman It's the 'cracksman'—the 'cracksman' who went over to the police. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces That evening I brought home a double-barreled shot gun, a log-chain and a padlock that would have baffled a cracksman. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 It was Levy who set them to watch the crib since they'd lost the cracksman; he was good enough to reiterate all his orders for my benefit. Mr. Justice Raffles It was an ugly safe, extremely ugly—from a cracksman's point of view! The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale I saw obvious objections: the man was au fait with cracksmen and their ways: he would certainly have firearms, and might be the first to use them. The Amateur Cracksman "The cracksman!" howled out Merode, twisting round in the darkness and reaching blindly for the haft of his dirk. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces And perhaps the least mischievous vice a professional cracksman can indulge is that of gambling, since it can hardly drive him to lengths more desperate than those whereby he gains a livelihood. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Dear old Raffles was scarcely more skilful and audacious as amateur cracksman than as amateur anaesthetist, nor was he ever averse from the practice of his uncanny genius at either game. Mr. Justice Raffles No, it would be hardly true to call that modern; it was only an ancient monstrosity, a helpless thing at the mercy of any cracksman who— The flashlight in his hand went out. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale The amateur cracksman handed over his loot, and retired toward the stairs. The Gem Collector Had it been the cracksman, there would have been no 'if'—it were done as surely as he attempted it. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces He counted upon taking his enemy unawares, difficult as he believed such a feat would be, in the case of a professional cracksman. The Brass Bowl "Yes, if the cracksmen got word that there was such a collection as this in any private house it would need a couple of men with pistols to keep guard over them." Colonel Thorndyke's Secret The treasonous cracksmen of the city's wealth Watch for the flags of stealth! Toward the Gulf It was after that that I became a cracksman. The Gem Collector She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces You may admire the exploits of a "gentleman" cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you. The Deluge My father was a cracksman, and a first-rate one, too; he brought me up to the business, beginning when I was very small. The Stories of the Three Burglars Hook, however, was a proficient in the art, and would have made a successful 'cracksman' had he been born in the Seven Dials. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Violence—except in extreme cases; I hope this won't be one of them—is contrary to cracksmen's etiquette. The Gem Collector That devil—that renegade—that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces A regular bullseye electric torch, and black masks like cracksmen use—say, tell me, Frank, what's coming over our quiet country up here lately? The Aeroplane Boys Flight A Hydroplane Roundup If a cracksman ain't careful the alarms will go off, and if he don't know how to manage dogs, the dogs will bark. The Stories of the Three Burglars He was one of the most accomplished cracksmen in England, and feats which seemed impossible to me would probably be the merest child's play to him. A Rogue by Compulsion Didn't you know he was the premier cracksman of France? Alias the Lone Wolf The professional cracksman had done his work more neatly than the amateur. The Pothunters After all he had gone through that night, it disturbed Fenn very little to find on the following morning that the professional cracksman had gone off with one of the cups in his study. The Head of Kay's Barney Fitch, the cracksman, was a senior warden compared to them. The Stories of the Three Burglars He ran, and Mr Pickering, having followed him with the eye of fear, went rather shakily into the house, his brain whirling with professional cracksmen and gas pipes and assaulted butlers, to relate his adventure. Uneasy Money I have my two men already watching the little gardener's hut in the Tropical Gardens, where I hid my cracksman's outfit. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story He must now endeavour to reconstruct the plan upon which the American cracksman had operated. Tales of Chinatown The kiddy is a clever cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue It was natural, too, for here he had one of the most modern of small strong-boxes, built up of the latest chrome steel and designed to withstand any reasonable assault of cracksman or fire. The Ear in the Wall Without another word he was gone into the blackness of the noxious stifle which filled the Radium Corporation office since the cracksman had struck the unexpected pocket of rapidly evaporating stuff. The War Terror This had seemed an ideal place of concealment, and he had secretly conveyed the box there until the prisoner, who was an expert cracksman, should be on hand to open it. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School Cashier, consider what regular and desperate cracksmen would have done to you! When Egypt Went Broke 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. The Intrusion of Jimmy No indeed, your modern scientific cracksman keeps abreast of the times in his field better than you imagine. The Ear in the Wall Perhaps the robberies last summer at Narragansett, Newport, and a dozen other New England places were perpetrated by the same cracksman. The War Terror The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. For the Term of His Natural Life Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed? Roundabout Papers But violence, except in extreme cases—I hope this won't be one of them—is contrary, I understand, to cracksman's etiquette. The Intrusion of Jimmy In about ten minutes Craig displayed a neat little hole in the safe door opposite the one made by the cracksman in the combination. The Silent Bullet This latter suggestion dovetailed with my own ideas, and oddly enough there was something positively wholesome in the notion of the straightforward crookedness of a mere swell cracksman. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper The Sparrow, from a first-class chauffeur mechanic, had showed signs of becoming a first-class cracksman, it was true; but the Sparrow was young, and she had never believed that he was inherently bad. The White Moll It was given out that Ben Price had taken up the trail of the elusive cracksman, and other people with burglar-proof safes felt more at ease. Roads of Destiny It takes brains to be a successful cracksman. The Intrusion of Jimmy Who was this scientific cracksman who had apparently accomplished the impossible? The Silent Bullet There was a good deal about Mr. Earl Dexter, the cracksman, that any man must have admired. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper His paltry sense of discipline permitted him to be betrayed even by his brother and pupil, and there was no cracksman of his time over whose head he held the rod of terror. A Book of Scoundrels "I said 'burglar,' not 'beggar,'" answered the cracksman. Whirligigs "Go to bed, Jimmy," said the portrayer of cracksmen. The Intrusion of Jimmy Last summer in Paris with the Greenes you must have chanced to hear, of Pillard, the Apache, one of the most noted cracksmen the world has ever produced. The Silent Bullet It is!" replied the cracksman, "and you've looked in at a real inconvenient time! The Quest of the Sacred Slipper But Rann holds his own against the best of his craft, with an imperishable name, while a host of more distinguished cracksmen are excluded even from the Newgate Calendar. A Book of Scoundrels Dear me, yes, an attractive bandit, a romantic and chivalrous cracksman, anything you please. The Crystal Stopper I can't make out, though, why all this incense is being burned at the feet of the cracksman. The Intrusion of Jimmy Under the mask Jimmie Dale's lips parted in a smile that seemed almost apologetic, as he viewed the helpless iron monstrosity that was little more than an insult to a trained cracksman. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale It was a death-trap into which he had lured Dexter and which he had left baited for whomsoever might trace the cracksman to the Gate House. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper The fop, indeed, had climbed the altitudes of life; the cracksman still stumbled in the valleys. A Book of Scoundrels To denounce the visitor as a cracksman was now impossible, for he knew too much. The Intrusion of Jimmy Anything beyond that was getting on for the Middle West, and seemed admirably suited as a field for the cracksman. The Intrusion of Jimmy Beyond the garden wall frowned a railway embankment, which enabled the cracksman to escape from his house without opening the front door. A Book of Scoundrels |
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