safe-blower
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In the darkness he fell over a chair, and by the time he had disentangled himself and had reached the corridor the safe-blower was gone.
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He was feeling for Bean the contempt which a really distinguished safe-blower is said to feel for the cheap thief who purloins bottles of milk from basement doorways in the gray of dawn.
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The safe-blower who finds his "soup" cooling and dares not set it down felt as Kate Cumberland felt then.
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If you have disfigured her tender heart by trying to break into it, as a safe-blower gets into those large, steel things we call safety deposit vaults—where other men keep things they don't care to lose—I must say that his satanic majesty will be to pay.
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If th' Prisidint iv th' Epworth League was a safe-blower be night th' man that'd catch him'd be a la-ad with gr-reat powers iv observation an' thrained habits iv raisonin'.
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