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The pick of Rat's litter is Corporal King, a cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger.

From Time Magazine Archive

They bring him down to the level of a practised conjuror or a thimblerigger.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John