cutpurse

1 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.

2 The light-fingered art must have degenerated in Toledo since the day of that clever cutpurse of the "Exemplary Tales."

3 Even though he is a cutpurse, sometimes, he will capably be a good man.

即便他是一个小偷，有时他也可能是一个“好人”。

4 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.

5 Overdo went to the Fair in disguise, and being mistaken for a cutpurse, was well beaten.

6 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.

7 For night was falling: where the fun of the fair was not were gloom and a rising wind, lurking cutpurses, and waste land.

8 A few, and these the loudest, were swashbucklers and cutpurses.

9 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?

10 I briefly considered trying to cutpurse the money, but I knew it was a bad idea.

11 "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."

12 She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.

13 Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of bargain—an unwary victim.

14 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.

15 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.

16 That did I, my lord: Had he had right, he had been hanged ere this; The only captain of the cutpurse crew.

17 Some apprentices had caught a cutpurse in the crowd, and were beating him unmercifully.

18 Then there are their fellow criminals, the highwaymen, forgers, cutpurses and bullies of whom we relieve his Majesty's government.

19 I held a desperate hope that I could cutpurse that much in time.

20 There are many cutpurses among them, and if the rigour of the Prince did not cut them off they could not be auoyded.

1 小偷

bludger thief pickpocket lurcher

2 扒手

pickpocket dip jostler finger DIP tool gun cannon picker digger whiz jostle dipper prig pickpurse mobsman knucksman wire booster diver sniper hustle lifter banger derrick whizzer knuck fingersmith

3 贼

rat thief rip-off gon five-finger ganef