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- noun Plural form of
house-breaker .
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Examples
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I had several proposals made also to me about that time, to come into a gang of house-breakers; but that was a thing I had no mind to venture at neither, any more than I had at the coining trade.
Moll Flanders 2003
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A lot of time, too, and time for house-breakers is risky.
In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976
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His studies of men took so universal a form that he became familiar even with the slang terms of pickpockets and house-breakers.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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In other respects also the Berias of Bengal appear to be more respectable than the remainder of the caste, obtaining their livelihood by means which, if disreputable, are not actually dishonest; while in Central India the women Berias are prostitutes and the men house-breakers and thieves.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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The prisoners of war, not being criminals, used to be made over by Mohammad to some citizens of Medina, as in the case of the prisoners of the battle of Badr, to keep them in their houses as guests, on account of the want of prisons; but as for the other criminals -- the highway robbers, dacoits, and house-breakers -- they could not be treated and entertained so hospitably.
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The boy shuddered at the thought of being taken for an accomplice of house-breakers; and told him he knew nothing about them.
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In Jubbulpore, Mr. Gayer states, the caste are expert house-breakers, bold and daring, and sometimes armed with swords and matchlocks.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Chaumont, La Force, De Créquy, de Longueville, and de Choisy fell before the picks of the house-breakers.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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They are the most inveterate house-breakers and dangerous criminals.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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He had read that boys are sometimes employed by house-breakers to climb in through windows or broken pannels, to open the door on the inside; and now he was thought to be such a one himself.
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