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One can't catch a fat, old safe-breaker on the box 13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The whole country had been following news of the hunt for Tauchen, a safe-breaker, following his dramatic escape.
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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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