sbirro

The sbirro fell on his knees, but the officer was inexorable, and he was sent to prison.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

A priest came by, then a lawyer, then a poet; but the sbirro made no sign.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

A lazzarone always addresses a sbirro as _eccellenza_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

He wanted to cheat his confederate, and his confederate had cheated him; but far from bearing him malice for having done so, the sbirro views the conduct of the lazzarone in the light of an exploit, and feels an additional respect for him in consequence.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

We must make room for one more extract, in which he figures in conjunction with his friend the sbirro or gendarme, who before being invested with a uniform, and armed with carbine, pistols, and sabre, has frequently been a lazzarone himself, and usually preserves the instincts and tastes of his former station.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

As the sbirro had himself been a lazzarone, he saw at once the trick that had been played him.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

The result of this is a coalition between the lazzarone and the sbirro -- law-breaker and law-preserver uniting in a systematic attack upon the pockets of the public.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

With what tools his sbirro was at work I could not say; but surely they must be such as would leave me a few moments.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

"-- To wanton it here in the moonlight with that damned swashbuckler, that brigand, that kennel-bred beast of a sbirro!"

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

But what manner of companion would this sbirro make in times of peace?

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912