Sneak thief

Usage examples of pickpocket.

Lo Manto joined the Naples police force one week past his twenty-first birthday and was initially assigned to a street patrol unit designed to keep the main tourist areas free of vagrants, hookers, and pickpockets.

Also, to the Meskin pickpockets who infested every street fiesta, the retirees regularly lost their trifocals, hearing aids, corsets, prostatic catheters and pacemaker battery packs.

Hours earlier, before the two circus performers had plunged to their separate deaths, before Rostnikov had failed to find his pickpocket, before the first faint light of dawn had tried to let the city know that it was waiting behind the clouds, a tall, gaunt man dressed in black had made his way to the records room of the Petrovka Station, had carefully collected notes in a black notebook, and had left the building to walk to the Marx Prospekt Metro Station, where he had climbed onto an arriving train and stood throughout his journey even though there were several seats available.

Port Royal Volunteers, commanded by the butcher with the candlemaker as second in command, and with three sawyers, two coopers, one potman and a rheumatic pickpocket as the fighting force.

He thought about what it would be like to work in a scrubbed little rural hospital with no crushes of people and no pickpocket warnings.

In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.

The transvestite prostitutes easily beat away the street prostitutes and their pimps, and not even the pickpockets could escape with the heavy suitcase, which the hijras opened for themselves.

And most of the inhabitants of the Leather Lane area were involved, at least peripherally, in fencing stolen goods, a little forgery, of documents if not of money, in pickpocketing, burglary, cardsharping and a dozen other illegal pursuits.

The plans had as much to do with desegregation as, well, a pickpocket does.

If a word from the Cecils--a word delivered through Nick Skeres, and perhaps through Ingram Frizer as well--could ward him against cheats and thieves and pickpockets and highwaymen, what could a different word do?

I had lost it I daresay there would be the deuce of a kickup, and I should be abused as though I were a pickpocket!

Ford was a third-rate trainer who by general consensus was as honest and trustworthy as a pickpocket at Aintree, and he trained in a hollow in the Downs at a spot where any passing motorist could glance down into his yard.

When a stranger comes here they know how to get over him, and if he plays it is all up with him, for they go together like pickpockets at a fair.

Giffen had succeeded Graves as leader of the bashers, Devrise oversaw those who burgled and fenced goods, and Phil was in charge of pickpockets, smash-and-grab gangs, and the urchins who ran the streets of Krondor.

Maigret knew all the pickpockets by sight, not only the ones from Paris, but those who came from Spain or London for the big fairs or open-air festivals.