How To Use Cutpurse In A Sentence
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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You might remember Amanda, the comely cutpurse who periodically dropped by to complicate Duncan MacLeod's life.
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Thirteen-year-old Alan Dale, only son of a poor widow, scrapes a meagre living as a thief and cutpurse in and around the busy town of Nottingham.
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It got more complicated in that men escorting women stood away from the walls to protect the women from getting splashed with mud from passing carriages, but this left them open to being robbed by cutpurses hiding in side alleys.
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I was not long ago in England, and witnessed there the hanging of one Elizabeth Evans–Canberry Bess, they called her–a notorious murderer and cutpurse, who was taken with her partner, one Thomas Shearwood.
On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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Pleas of the crown should also be heard at these sessions, before bailiffs and coroners, except for cases of cutpurses and thieves caught redhanded or arrested upon complaint of a visiting outsider (as in the time of fair or market).
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He watched as the cutpurse found another satchel to set his eye upon, but this man was not as absent in mind as his fellow merchants.
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His traveling companion, he learned later, was a cutpurse who had fled justice, only to be caught soon after his arrival in Lund and summarily hanged.
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Not even the moon shone on the black, starless night and the woman picked her way carefully across the city, keeping a wary eye out for cutpurses and nocturnal pickpockets.
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A day later it appears we have made the right decision, we crept along tunnels for a while, sneaking not like the hallowed warriors we trained to be, but like cutpurses and cowards.
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You, whose conscience is too delicate to continue as a cutpurse, threaten to turn assassin?
THE TIME QUAKE
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Unless, he decided, some luckless footpad or cutpurse was falsely accused.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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In which the two brothers cooperate, Gideon resumes his career as a cutpurse, and Tempest House plays host to some unexpected visitors
THE TIME QUAKE
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The meaning of the term cutpurse was a lot clearer.
The Soprano Sorceress
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Not even the moon shone on the black, starless night and the woman picked her way carefully across the city, keeping a wary eye out for cutpurses and nocturnal pickpockets.
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I'm the apothecary, the cutpurse, and the maid.
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This novel describes the life of an heroic warrior suffering from delusions of an alternate life as a rogue and cutpurse .
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There, training of every sort took place, from that of the humble cutpurse, to specialist thieves who employed magic to enhance their talents at burglary.
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Those who visited London's suburban playhouses would have travelled through districts where prostitutes operated, and the theatres themselves were often thought to be a haunt of cutpurses.
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Is the statute's description of the society of cutpurses an accurate appraisal, or an attempt to link them with another outlawed culture?
