Jack Sheppard

We have a black sow; we call her Jack Sheppard; impossible to confine her — impossible also for her to be confined!

Vailima Letters 2005

Jack; WILLIAM HOGARTH TWAIN, alias Jack Sheppard; ANANIAS TWAIN, alias

Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard," down to "Merciless Ben, the Hair-Lifter," criminal narrative has been occupied with endowing burglars and murderers with the graces of gentlemen and the moral worth of Christian missionaries.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Perhaps we may find some little consolation in this fact, like the unhappy victims of famous freebooters such as Jack Sheppard or Charley Peace.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

"Jack Sheppard," returned the boy, fixing his eyes upon a portrait of the Earl of Mar. "Who's that queer cove in the full-bottomed wig?"

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

The tribe of Israelites he has studied with amazing gusto; witness the Jew in Mr. Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard," and the immortal Fagin of "Oliver Twist."

George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

With regard to the modern romance of "Jack Sheppard," in which the latter personage makes a second appearance, it seems to us that Mr. Cruikshank really created the tale, and that Mr. Ainsworth, as it were, only put words to it.

George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Ainsworth, author of "Jack Sheppard," &c.; and Mr. Henson, the projector of the late unsuccessful flying machine -- with two seamen from

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

a century later Bulwer Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth did for the reading public with "Ernest Maltravers," "Jack Sheppard," and the rest.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Lewis Melville 1903

A year earlier, a brutal crime occurred that local sheriff Jack Sheppard could not prevent…a girl was brutally tortured and then disappeared.

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