housebreaker

How To Use housebreaker In A Sentence

• The housebreaker's unclean face was still cheerful and mocking, although a slow worry had begun gathering at its edges. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
• Thus a South Slavonian housebreaker sometimes begins operations by throwing a dead man’s bone over the house, saying, with pungent sarcasm, “As this bone may waken, so may these people waken”; after that not a soul in the house can keep his or her eyes open. Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
• Neither authority can be unaware that dark streets are an invitation for potential housebreakers and thugs to call round.
• in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker
• The stranger was run off as a housebreaker.
• Another housebreaker stands accused of a number of break-ins where he stole expensive stereo systems and CD collections.
• The housebreaker 's unclean face was still cheerful and mocking, although a slow worry had begun gathering at its edges. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
• `I've met and talked with the housebreaker myself - now there's one you have to meet, George. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
• Do you have an enclosed unlit porch that would give a housebreaker some cover while working on the front door lock?
• `I know one called Edward Bellamy who's a housebreaker up in Seven Dials. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY