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  • One can't catch a fat, old safe-breaker on the box 13

    Cryptic crossword No 25,224 2011

  • Rawlinson was also impressed, by the man's audacity in making such a barefaced attempt to get hold of a commodity he used in his real trade, for Hilton was an expert safe-breaker.

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • Pausert tried to shake more ferroplast off himself, while he reflected that having an expert safe-breaker and lock-pick in your crew could be very useful.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • He had all the contempt for a petty-larceny thief that the skilled safe-breaker has for the common purse-snatcher.

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • She was a wit, and she had a beautiful hand, even though she was no better than the rest of Monte Carlo, ruminated the safe-breaker easily, as he squinted, under the flare of a match, at the ward indentations in his wax-covered key-flange.

    Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

  • He forgot his triumph with Carrie in the possibility of soon being known for what he was, in this man's eyes, a safe-breaker.

    Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • He forgot his triumph with Carrie in the possibility of soon being known for what he was, in this man's eyes, a safe-breaker.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • He forgot his triumph with Carrie in the possibility of soon being known for what he was, in this man's eyes, a safe-breaker.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • The whole country had been following news of the hunt for Tauchen, a safe-breaker, following his dramatic escape.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • Now, Unlike Feynman the safe-breaker or Oppenheimer the bleeding heart I LOVE both The Bomb and its big brother The H Bomb.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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