Of course my burglar insurance will make good my loss--or most of it; but that'll take time.
His eyes, looking past the burglar to the door, lit with relief.
He leaped at him, his left arm swinging like a scythe, and, with the impact of a club, the blow caught the burglar in the throat.
The blow the burglar had given him was covered with a piece of cold beef-steak, and the water thrown on him to revive him was thawing from his leather breeches.
The door flung open and the bigburglar and a small, rat-like figure of a man burst upon them; the big one pointing a revolver.
The pistol went off impotently; the burglar with a choking cough sank in a heap on the floor.
The young man tramped over him and upon him, and beat the second burglar with savage, whirlwind blows.
Had the burglar lowered his eyes, the manoeuvre to him would have been significant, but his eyes were following the barrel of the revolver.
The young man had taken the revolver from the limp fingers of the burglar and was holding it in his hand.
The big burglar for one instant glanced over his right shoulder.
Well, then," Wise remarked, "the burglar came up from the cellar.
That would be a fine theory," Potter observed, "but for the fact that a burglar couldn't get in or out.
Now there is the history of that burglar alarm--everything just as it happened; nothing extenuated, and naught set down in malice.
I'll get some hot water from the kitchen, in case the burglar should come back while you're gone.
You won't meet the burglar 'cause he's gone the other way.
And yet the burglar would have a soft thing on cigars with that bill, for every time he visited the doctor he would tell him when to come again, and give him a cigar.
The burglar could take a tie pass that is in the safe, and walk to Philadelphia, and trade out the twenty-five dollar draft by taking buchu on account.
Another thing the burglar would find would be a protested draft from a great Philadelphia patent medicine advertiser.
The numbers are safe with you, and the All Seeing Eye you have confidence will not give it away, so that the only show a burglar has is to get solid with the maker of the safe.
If a burglar wouldn't be frightened at that dog nothing would scare him.
But what would it profit a burglar to gain the whole contents and wear out his soles.
But no burglar that has any respect for himself, we feel sure, will ever do us the injury to scrape the paint off of that safe.
The German burglar calls it Dietrich, Peterchen, or Klaus, and the contracted forms of the first name, dyrk and dirk, have passed into Swedish and Danish with the same meaning.
The implement by which the burglarearns his daily bread is now called a jemmy, but in the 17th century we also find bess and betty.
My duty as novelist obliges me to reveal that early one morning in the month of July, a few moments before sunrise, the garden gate of a country house opened, and a man crept out with the stealthiness of a burglar fearing discovery.
Three of a Kind A Lawyer in whom an instinct of justice had survived the wreck of his ignorance of law was retained for the defence of a burglar whom the police had taken after a desperate struggle with someone not in custody.
This answer deeply impressed the Lawyer, and having ascertained that the Burglar had accumulated no money in his profession he threw up the case.
Why, my dear sir, the first thought of a burglarwould be to carry off those pictures and tapestries, which are universally renowned.
There was evidently a coincidence to be reckoned with in the disappearance of a wounded burglar and the kidnapping of a famous surgeon.
Saved the burglar a lot of trouble, I should say,' observed Jackson, 'I could break into the Pav.
Well, anyhow, I don't see that they can blame a burglar for taking the pots if they simply chuck them in his way like that.
Welch lives on Bovril for, a month, and then, just as he thinks he's going to score, a burglar with a sense of humour strolls into the Pav.
It might occur to a boy, as indeed Mr Thompson had suggested, to steal the cups in order to give the impression that a practised burglar had been at work.
A burglar got into the wine-cellar and collared all the coals.
Surely no one but a practisedburglar would have taken a pane of glass out so--ah--neatly?
This was another testimonial from the burglar world.
It was evident that the burglar had been interrupted, but how or why nobody knew.
The burglar evidently stole only the suitcase, thinking perhaps there was something of value in it.
You see, I had just reached the dining room when that burglarattacked me.
Momently she expects to see some crape-masked burglar enter the door or window.
Two of the police were to hide there, and keep an eye on the house opposite until they saw a burglar number one admitted by the traitorous nurse-girl.
Should Jerry tackle the watching burglar now or wait?
Again, has the silliest burglar ever pretended that to put a stop to burglary is to put a stop to industry?
A man who robs little children when no one is looking can hardly have much self-respect or even self-esteem; but an accomplishedburglar must be proud of himself.
The Professor was calm and collected now, as if the discovery of a burglar in his bedroom were a thing of nightly occurrence.
He told how he had been awakened, and how he conceived the idea of hypnotising the burglar and making him give himself up to the police.
Within ten minutes the story of the hypnotised burglar was being dictated by the editor himself to relays of shorthand writers.
None, he argued, would suspect of being a burglar a man who was whistling at the stretch of his power.
I don't like to disappoint a burglar whom I am not acquainted with, and who has done me no harm, but if he had had common sagacity enough to inquire, I could have told him we kept nothing down there but coal and vegetables.
He can't any more preach a good sermon when he is lit up than a burglar can crack a safe or jimmy a window if he tanks up beforehand.
The worst crime a burglarcan commit is to get drunk.
The only place a burglar goes to if he boozes is jail.
In Central City they told us a story of a miner, who was awakened one night by a noise at his window, and found it to be a burglar trying to get in.
It's been a narrow squeak for both of us to-night," said the burglar reflectively.
In the last one the burglarpounced on a bag of money and some notes.
But before he had called again the burglar had raised his revolver and had severed the connecting wire with a shot.
Sir John sank back into his chair, feeling it was very likely that the burglar would adopt some extremely unpleasant form of revenge for the want of confidence he had just displayed.
It showed the folly of becoming the champion jewel burglar of the club.
You open up a wide philosophic question," said the burglar suavely.
The burglar turned, and resumed his work; but he did not seem to have much heart in it, nor to derive much encouragement from Mr. Hilton's occasional promptings.
Sir John was struck, as much by the melodious voice of the burglar as by his answer.
Again the burglar endeavoured to speak, but once more Mr. Meyer commanded silence.
Determined not to be baffled--for his credit as a burglar was at stake--Lord Roker resumed his search, and again went over the ground.
While the burglar was busy with the locks Hilton turned over the papers on the desk.
The burglarexamined it carefully before he expressed his satisfaction.
The burglar examined it critically, and then felt its weight.
Was it her fancy, or had she indeed heard the soft ringing of the burglar alarm which she had had attached to the library door on the other side of the hall!
The burglar got into the house without much difficulty; because we must have action and not too much description in a 2,000-word story.
The burglar must be foiled by a kid like me, or by a young lady heroine, or at the last moment by his old pal, Red Mike, who recognizes the house as one in which he used to be the coachman.
I'm sure it's neither agreeable nor usual for a kid of my age to butt in when a full-grown burglar is at work and offer him a red sled and a pair of skates not to awaken his sick mother.
It's one of the canons of household fiction that no burglar shall be successful.
Suddenly the burglar stopped and called to him softly: "Ain't there a cop out there in front somewhere sparking the girl?
The burglar wiped his hands on the tablecloth and arose with a yawn.
The burglar sat again and toyed with the wishbone.
At this Edith, who was impatient to see the safe opened, exclaimed that the twentieth century had nothing to boast of if it could not solve a puzzle which any clever burglar of the nineteenth century was equal to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burglar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: intruder; robber; thief
