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Examples

  • "Police suspect 'Barefoot Burglar' is stealing, crashing planes"

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The Burglar is the aristocrat of crime, and you cannot offend him more than by calling him a thief.

    Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • Alexis Neiers was a relatively minor player in the ring - also termed the Burglar Bunch - but took a bigger role when her arrest coincided with production of

    The Hollywood Gossip 2010

  • Come to think of it, I'm now around the age he was when Gandalf scratched the rune for "Burglar" on his lovely green door.

    Being Bilbo Donna Farley 2007

  • Come to think of it, I'm now around the age he was when Gandalf scratched the rune for "Burglar" on his lovely green door.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Donna Farley 2007

  • The sight of the Tory party gyrating wioldly to find a half-decent candidate is frankly pitiful and distracting from the more important issues of teh day - such as pointing out what rubbish 'Burglar' Brown who stole from our pension funds actually is.

    Boris: Will He or Won't He? 2007

  • Piers, 'and, what was perhaps his most popular book,' Burglar's Tools and How to Use Them. '

    The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

  • 'Burglar' stuck in window for six hours A BUNGLING British burglar had to be rescued by firefighters overnight after he tried to climb through a tiny window and was stuck there for six hours.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • 'Burglar' stuck in window for six hours A BUNGLING British burglar had to be rescued by firefighters overnight after he tried to climb through a tiny window and was stuck there for six hours.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • 'Burglar' stuck in window for six hours A BUNGLING British burglar had to be rescued by firefighters overnight after he tried to climb through a tiny window and was stuck there for six hours.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

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