The pioneer towns were outraged, and every citizen automatically became a peace officer, shipping the crooks out as fast as they were discovered.
Warnings came by letter to Superintendent Witten, describingcrooks who were on their way to the Rosebud.
Mr. Vandeford questioned Mr. Meyers with a kind of forlorn hope in his eyes, for Mr. Meyers had often seen him through thecrooks of his trade.
Crooks and--and cut-ups are about done for," said Miss Lindsey.
Lisa himself was charged with this by Crooks and MacLellan.
MacLellan and Crooks and John Day--before they joined the Astorians--and Boone and Carson and Colter, are names that stand for the true type of free trapper.
Generally he has no way of proving such facts, and has to sit in silence; but when his board bill falls due and his landlady is persistent, he experiences a direct and earnest hatred of the crooks of journalism who thrive at his expense.
There are as many classes of crooks as there are things to steal, and the more dangerous the theft, the more distinguished is the criminal in the eyes of his professional brethren.
I wish those crooks would leave us alone," he thought to himself.
Angelo the impostor and his band of crooks and kidnapers were sent to jail; not, however, until their bank accounts were exhausted, their safety boxes emptied, paying back the money they had hoped to steal.
Crooks are learning to use science as an aid in committing crimes.
Shut up," literally crooks up, as a prisoner is doubled up by fetters.
He moves that the nomination of Mr. Crooks be made unanimous.
What is to be noted is that Mr. Crooks has been nominated simply because he had a hold which could not be shaken on a small but compact body of men at Woolwich.
In ten minutes the hall is singing God Save the King and Mr. Will Crooks is the chosen candidate of the Liberal party to oppose Mr. Balfour at the coming election.
Before the roll is more than half completed it is evident that Crooks must be chosen.
Curly had gone plumb crazy, throwing his life away to get Balshannon one more chance of escape, but the crooks only saw that the small boy's team of guns were quick in his hands to shoot, and felt real glad of Ryan's outstretched arms.
I tried to get these crooks run out of the city, but Ryan's too strong for me.
You know he is like a lot of crooks that even hate to look at a barber's pole cause of the stripes on it, and when you stop to think about it, you never see a crook wear a striped suit of clothes.
I suppose you know it by this time in that way that you people seem to get all the news, especially any news that has to do with crooks or prisons.
I believe crooks have something wrong down deep inside of them.
But he won't be raised with crooks and grow up feeling that crookedness is straight.
It's not for you to talk of crooks and blackmailers.
These crooks from the Skandinavia got a strangle holt on the youngsters of this outfit who've no kiddies like those.
It is just a kind of cage, that woodpile, with its crooks and turns.
My trap for crooks and cracksmen is a bottle of hocussed whiskey, and I guess that's it on the table, with the silver label around its neck.
But I figure it's enough for ninety-nine crooks out of a hundred, and nineteen out of twenty 'll have their liquor before they go to work.
Walk up and see one o' their blamed British crooks laid as low as the blamed carpet, and nailed as tight!
Several crosses are found in an opposite hemisphere, separated from that occupied by the two animal pictures by a series of geometric figures ornamented with crooks and other designs.
The Con-Men These are crooks who set up elaborate schemes ("sting operations") to extract money from unsuspecting people and financial institutions.
You can't let professional crooks carry off a voter's silverware simply because the voter, being asleep, is unable instantly to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that his silver has been stolen.
Most Italian crooks come to the United States not merely some time or other, but at intervals.
Yet, of course, it is this class of crooks who most excite our interest and who fill the pages of popular detective fiction.
Here the agency and the police work hand in hand, exchanging photographs of crooks and suspects and keeping closely informed as to each other's doings.
People as a rule don't go rushing around charging each other with being crooks unless they have some reason for it.
One would be interested to have this past-master of overstatement mention the names of these distinguished crooks that head the prominent agencies.
The local Italian crooks avail themselves of the universal fear of the vendetta, and let it be generally known that trouble will visit the banker or importer who does not "come across" handsomely.
Doctor Malsano's gang of continental crooks worked in varying directions, and there was very little in the way of villainy that did not come within the scope of their operations, and Raife was entangled in them.
But when I was in London the crooks of Soho, Hatton Garden, and the other quarters used to laugh at the English detectives, with their big boots, pipe, and what they call a skull cap.
There are no crooks to this cornet when constructed in B[flat], but it may be instantaneously transposed into the key of A major by means of an undetachable slide guided by a piston rod.
Clanahan's gangsters and crooks had been at work for some time before the plot climaxed.
By a curious coincidence the great news seemed to have reached all, toffs and crooks alike, at exactly the same time.
Inside there were steps up and down from one part to another, queer crooks in narrow passageways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
