thieftaker

Harley Boble was an erstwhile thieftaker, now evidently turned thief.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

As a bankrupt thief turns thieftaker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

As a bankrupt thief turns thieftaker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

As a bankrupt thief turns thieftaker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

You are all seeking comfort from one that has already betrayed you, applying to a more malicious being than any thieftaker of them all; for they only decoy, and then hang you; but he decoys and hangs, and what is worst of all, will not let you loose after the hangman has done. '

The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752

Benjamin Weaver, the pugilist-turned-thieftaker-turned-detective hero of A Conspiracy Of Paper, is back again.

Naked Without Books! 2008

"Do ye recall a wretched little thieftaker named Harley Boble?

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

You are all seeking comfort from one that has already betrayed you, applying to a more malicious being than any thieftaker of them all; for they only decoy, and then hang you; but he decoys and hangs, and what is worst of all, will not let you loose after the hangman has done.’

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004