safe-blower
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Later, he represented safe-blower Paddy Meehan who'd been controversially convicted of murder.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2015
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.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
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'.
From Observations By Mr. Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne
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.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
The safe-blower who finds his "soup" cooling and dares not set it down felt as Kate Cumberland felt then.
From The Night Horseman by Max Brand
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