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单词 cutpurse
例句 cutpurse
At the bridge’s center span, the severed hands of thieves and cutpurses hung like strings of onions from iron stanchions along the roadway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
"The Milk Men shun him. Khaleesi, do you see the girl in the felt hat? There, behind the fat priest. She is a—" "—cutpurse," finished Dany. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I held a desperate hope that I could cutpurse that much in time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Pigs and naked children were everywhere underfoot, crippled beggars and cutpurses swarmed like roaches through the press. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I briefly considered trying to cutpurse the money, but I knew it was a bad idea. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
As the watchers craned their necks upward, the cutpurses squirmed through the press, small blades hidden in their palms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Now, Eugene wishes to gain a final rest from the cycle, to be released from the emotional burden he has carried since his days as a cutpurse in Moorish Spain. Has he lived 1,110 years, or only 106? A desert retiree's magical metafictional tour 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z
Thy father's slayer is no mean reaver or cutpurse; yet, though we have him safe by the heels, manacled and leg-ironed, and threaten him with the thumbscrews, never a word can be wrung from him. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z
For night was falling: where the fun of the fair was not were gloom and a rising wind, lurking cutpurses, and waste land. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z
To the common risks of the road, deserted at that hour by all save cutpurses and rogues, was added a suspicion, as much more harassing than these, as unseen dangers ever surpass the known. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z
The light-fingered art must have degenerated in Toledo since the day of that clever cutpurse of the "Exemplary Tales." Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
In his last years he took it upon himself to make war on the cutpurses and “conny-catchers” with whom he came into contact in the slums, and whose doings he fearlessly exposed in his writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z
Its the kind of chicanery a guild of cutpurses would be proud of, Darren. The Fiver 2010-09-08T15:00:00Z
“Gad,” he cried, “I dreamt I was being hanged as a cutpurse, and I felt the branch of an oak-tree swaying as I swung in the wind.” The Great Mogul
They gathered, he declared, all the riffraff of two countries, besides all the Molly Malones and cutpurses that ever were born to be hanged. Deep Moat Grange
A few, and these the loudest, were swashbucklers and cutpurses. Dreamers of the Ghetto
The pickpocket plied his trade, only he was then a cutpurse. The History of London
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
At length, after long meditation, the king said to himself— "Only wait a little, thou villain cutpurse, and yet I will have thee." Folk-lore and Legends: German
You say it as if you were saying, so my brother's a pickpocket, or so my brother's a cutpurse. Starman's Quest
One cannot afford to have his brother-in-law hanged like a common cutpurse.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
What if I did waste my youth and prime in cooking of porkers in a booth; I am no cutpurse. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
"And I," cried Conrad, "have lugged the commander in chief of the cutpurses by the throat, that sapient soothsayer that was playing off his pranks with his match the other day at your forge." The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of bargain—an unwary victim. Millennium
If he had not feared the judges of the Queen's Courts more than he feared God, he said in bitter jest, he should often have turned cutpurse. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660
To 16 make short, in another minute there was nothing to be seen of the cutpurses but flying feet scampering through the night. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
I feel as if only to think of it were lowering myself to the level of some cutpurse. The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
Only to chat with fishermen, and to reason with lost women, and habitually to consort with rascals, till at last He might die between two cutpurses, ignominiously! Chivalry
As a wind-up it will perhaps amuse the reader to note the high-sounding list of titles that the sultan—this "cutpurse and king of shreds and patches"—has given to himself. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
Collier, who has cited the present passage, observes, that this method of treating cutpurses, when detected at theatres, is no where else adverted to by any writer.—Hist. of Engl. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
Then there are their fellow criminals, the highwaymen, forgers, cutpurses and bullies of whom we relieve his Majesty's government. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
I know everything, even to the reason why you have stooped to play the part of a common cutpurse.” The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
Feb. 10th, at two after none I toke a cutpurse taking my purse out of my pocket in the Temple. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts
Ashamed that sin nae longer besets ye, an' that ye are lifted above the thief an' the cutpurse! Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
Thieves and cutpurses were plying their most successful work; but no officials had time to direct the efforts of the harassed and slender police corps. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
Landless, striking down a cutpurse from Tyburn, saw him run the Turk through, and saw behind him the nightmare visage and the raised club of Roach. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
Overdo went to the Fair in disguise, and being mistaken for a cutpurse, was well beaten. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
The clerk in the office did not particularly resemble a cutthroat, or even a cutpurse, and, strange to say, did not overcharge us: in fact, he behaved very civilly. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
Only to chat with fishermen, and to talk with light women, and to consort with rascals, and at last to die between two cutpurses, ignominiously! Chivalry
Some apprentices had caught a cutpurse in the crowd, and were beating him unmercifully. Master Skylark
Clearly then, whenever you see paupers in a State, somewhere in that neighborhood there are hidden away thieves, and cutpurses and robbers of temples, and all sorts of malefactors. The Republic
He excludes "the insolence of office," and "the cutpurse of the empire and the rule." Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870
I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe of booty, boy, a cutpurse. Literary Remains, Volume 2
There are many cutpurses among them, and if the rigour of the Prince did not cut them off they could not be auoyded. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
He had been a viler beast than the cutpurse poet of old France, without the lilies of verse that bloom pure white above the dunghill of Villon's life. We Can't Have Everything
For example, they are the thieves, burglars, cutpurses, footpads, robbers of temples, man-stealers of the community; or if they are able to speak they turn informers, and bear false witness, and take bribes. The Republic
He tickles his ears with a straw, and while he is pleased with scratching it, picks his pocket, as the cutpurse served Bartl. Character Writings of the 17th Century
Sometimes the coat was made to button behind instead of before; and he frequently placed the pockets in the lower part of the skirts, as if he had been in league with cutpurses. Stories by English Authors: Ireland
O, I cry you mercy, he is your father, sir, indeed; but I am sure that there's less affinity betwixt your two natures then there is between a broker and a cutpurse. The Merry Devil
Why then are we mistaken, as if we intended not equal advantages in our commonwealth to either sex, because we would not have women's fortunes consist in that metal which exposes them to cutpurses? The Commonwealth of Oceana
What, when there's scarce a cutpurse, housebreaker, or vagabond in Venice who has not been enlisted in our service, would it be so strange if the Doge discovered a little of the business? The Bravo of Venice; a romance
Nothing under a subpoena can draw him to London; and when he is there he sticks fast upon every object, casts his eyes away upon gazing, and becomes the prey of every cutpurse. Character Writings of the 17th Century
But the age which witnessed the enterprise of Drake and the triumph of Shakespeare knew also the prowess of the highwayman and the dexterity of the cutpurse. A Book of Scoundrels
That did I, my lord: Had he had right, he had been hanged ere this; The only captain of the cutpurse crew. Sir Thomas More
The eye of this wolf is as quick in his head as a cutpurse's in a throng, and as nimble is he at his business as an hangman at an execution. Character Writings of the 17th Century
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