pickpurses

Berowne confesses, on their joint behalf, that they are all pickpurses in love and deserve chastisement.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Steele suddenly called him by name, said something in that selfsame dialect of pickpurses and their ilk.

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

These brigands and cut-throats, pimps and pickpurses are set before us without bravado, without the genteel glaze of the timid painter, without an attempt to call a prostitute a _cocotte_.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

Cagliostro; milliner Dame de Lamotte, 'with a face of some piquancy:' the highest Church Dignitaries waltzing, in Walpurgis Dance, with quack-prophets, pickpurses and public women; -- a whole Satan's Invisible

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

By St. Peter of the Fetters, 'tis an irksome matter to have such a troop of idle, mischievous, dainty striplings thrust on one, giving more trouble, and making more call and outcry than twice as many honest thieves and pickpurses. "

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

By Saint Peter of the Fetters, 'tis an irksome matter to have such a troop of idle, mischievous, dainty striplings thrust on one, giving more trouble, and making more call and outcry than twice as many honest thieves and pickpurses. "

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862