Then Mrs. Hamilton explained how a pickpocket had undertaken to relieve her of her wallet, and would have succeeded but for her young companion.
There was no policeman in sight, and at a nod from the lady, the pickpocket was allowed to leave the stage.
The face of the pickpocketchanged and he darted a malignant glance at Ben.
No pickpocket is good after he passes forty years; so far, Dr.
When, according to the rules of Bertillon, Spanish was thumb-printed, mugged and measured, the police described him on their books as Pickpocket and Fagin.
Kennedy, in a low tone, of thepickpocket back of us.
The pickpocket had retained the money from the sale of the dope as his own particular honorarium.
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary.
I was a good pickpocket and a fairly successful burglar; and I have known many of the best crooks in the country.
When Muir did pickpocket work, he never dipped himself, but acted as a stall.
I cannot help comparing those swell guys whom I knew at Sing Sing with a third class pickpocket I met on the same bit.
We had seen a pickpocket at work, and there seemed to us no reason why we should not try the game ourselves.
Whirling around, he seized Pickpocket Joe by the coat-tails.
You did a very real service in capturing Pickpocket Joe,” the detective praised the two girls.
I wonder if the man you saw really was Pickpocket Joe.
The person or persons responsible for capturing Pickpocket Joe.
Just the same, it was fun to capture Pickpocket Joe and earn the reward,” sighed Connie, watching soberly as the circus train pulled from the siding onto the main track.
All the Brownies were responsible for capturing Pickpocket Joe,” Veve insisted.
Their action gave the fat man time to rush up and seize Pickpocket Joe.
He is a pickpocket and I'll prove it at the station house," said Jerry, warningly.
The pickpocket gave a hiccough and a cry of alarm that was very much like a whine.
The pickpocket had hardly uttered his cry when a bluecoat put into appearance and came running to the spot.
And with great deliberation the pickpocket closed one bleared eye and glared at Jerry.
At sight of the bluecoat the pickpocket became nervous.
The pickpocket was alone, and ere Jerry could stop him the cab rolled down the side street out of hearing.
In half an hour after the arrest of the pickpocket the young oarsman and his companions found themselves on the outskirts of Brooklyn and bowling along a smooth country road which the detectives said they knew well.
He continued the hunt for the pickpocket alone, but without avail, and, much disheartened, finally returned to his boarding-house.
The pillory and ten thousand gibbets to boot take that pickpocket attorney, that advised me to this lawsuit; h’ as ruined me for ever.
These pickpocket rogues,” says he, “did they think to govern the world with their own weights and measures, in secula seculorum?
Had a lovely day, not even a pickpocketto spoil it.
He means, not a pickpocket to bring us a friend in need and give us a jolly evening in Jamaica.
Of a promiscuous crowd, taken almost anywhere, the pickpocket in it is the smartest man present, in all probability.
Another English pickpocket appears to have Alps on Alps of difference between him and a thief.
There, sure enough, was my pickpocket gazing intently into the open purse, and chuckling as he gazed.
At sight of him the pickpocket stopped and caught my arm.
You've got no witness to prove that you did hear it; and as for me--I'll lie like a pickpocket and deny every word if you try to make capital out of it against her.
Well, for one thing, I make of it that that young man lied like a pickpocket and deliberately attempted to throw dust in our eyes.
It is quite possible that the pickpocket would have made good his escape, if he had not, unluckily for himself, run into another policeman.
I don't understand you," said the pickpocket loftily.
The pickpocket turned down a side street, his object being to get out of the range of observation as soon as possible.
The pickpocket saw that the officer wavered, and rejoined hastily, "You must expect the officer's a fool to believe your ridiculous story.
The pickpocket had an object in asking this question.
In the meantime, however, the pickpocket was master of his trade.
But it was not until the pickpocket set out for Botany Bay that he took full advantage of his gentlemanly bearing.
The pickpocket who had claimed her protection knew no more the delight of freedom.
But wipes dwindled, with dwindling sensibility; and once more the pickpocket was forced upon cleverness or extinction.
Though he practised the more glorious crafts of pickpocket and shoplifter, he did not despise the begging-letter, and he suffered his last punishment for receiving what another's courage had conveyed.
A man would be an expert pickpocket indeed who could steal a purse from me," said Ivanhoe; "I have had no use for an article of that sort for many years; Scottie can testify truly.
There is a skillful pickpocket aboard of this boat, and those who have money had better be on their guard.
A detective one day noticed a pickpocket riding in a crowded stage on Broadway.
Stopping the vehicle, he mounted the step, and said, "Gentlemen, there is a notorious pickpocket in this stage.
If the patrolman on duty at one of these places sees a known thief or pickpocket enter, he orders him to leave the premises.
From that moment the little pickpocket deserted me, and fastened himself like a barnacle to the big, hulking, patronizing Norris.
There was no assurance, as he afterwards explained, that the pickpocket might not pick up with more of his ilk, who would wish to seek out the place.
Sporting papers were filled with accounts of the various fights, which peer and pickpocket attended side by side, and which even a Royal Prince did not disdain to honour.
He began as an itinerant street vendor at eight, at ten he passed bad money, at fourteen he was a pickpocket and a "duffer," or a seller of sham goods.
Buz-Bloke~, a pickpocketwho principally confines his attention to purses and loose cash.
Edith Hudson, against whom there was no evidence of any nature, was held as a witness for the State, and a net was thrown out for the Lizard which dragged in nearly every pickpocket in town except the man they sought.
No Old Etonian, either then or now, would stand that kind of treatment, so Simms ran away, becoming a pickpocket and later a highwayman.
Began life as a pickpocket and housebreaker in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickpocket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dip; robber; thief
