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  • "Sullivan's Punch," "Cracksman," "Hickey's Teddy IV." and many others were not in themselves noted winners, and the same statement may be made of the dams of many of the prize winning dogs, but they possessed in themselves and their ancestry that "hall mark" of quality which appeared in a pronounced form in their offspring.

    The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell

  • Cracksman, in which poor Scape had embarked seventy thousand pounds, the earnings of a long and honourable life, taking

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Cracksman pronounced “KRAKS-man”: means “burgler.”

    Girls To The Rescue Book #3 Bruce Lansky 1997

  • The wine of the day might have been working in Burdon, too, for he hadn't walked far with Mary before he was reminding her more strongly than ever, of Steerforth in David Copperfield -- Baffles in the Amateur Cracksman.

    Mary Minds Her Business George Weston

  • The pup matured into a very nice dog, as I expected he would, being a Cracksman pup out of a good bitch.

    The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell

  • Curiously enough, it was almost identical with the big scene in act three of "Love, the Cracksman," in which Arthur Mifflin had made such a hit as the debonair burglar.

    The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

  • I had been to see the opening performance of a burglar-play called, 'Love, the Cracksman,' that night, and I worked off on Spike some severely technical information I had received from a pal of mine who played lead in the show.

    The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

  • Jimmy Pitt had now definitely ousted "Love, the Cracksman" as a topic of conversation.

    The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

  • For the past few weeks, during the rehearsals of "Love, the Cracksman," Arthur Mifflin had disturbed the peace at the Strollers 'with his theories on the art of burglary.

    The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

  • He still believed Jimmy to be of the class of the hero of "Love, the Cracksman."

    The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

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