What is "housebreakers"

Usage examples of "housebreakers".

The Doctor doubts the assertion, giving as his reason that highwaymen and housebreakers seldom frequent the playhouse, and that it was not possible for any one to imagine that he might rob with safety, because he saw Macheath reprieved upon the stage.

But if Johnson had wished to be convinced, he might very easily have discovered that highwaymen and housebreakers did frequent the theatre, and that nothing was more probable than that a laughable representation of successful villany should induce the young and the already vicious to imitate it.

The Hardys' offer to remain overnight, in the event that the housebreakers might return, was welcomed by Mrs.

By the time of Osborn, most criminals were ordinary highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers and pirates.

When Henry Fielding’s blind brother John took over his job at Bow Street, he had to do the work all over again - hang dozens of highwaymen and housebreakers, and send hundreds of pickpockets and petty thieves to prison.

I had considered sleeping with it under my pillow, as I believe people are said to do for fear of housebreakers, but had visions of it discharging itself as I rolled over in my sleep, and anyway it had been far too big and uncomfortable to fit under my tiny goose-down pillow.

I had trouble with my footing in the dark but managed to avoid the third tread from the top, which squeaked, and the fifth from the top, whose riser – in order to trip unwary housebreakers – was four inches higher than the rest.

I myself think that the police are perfectly correct and that if, in this case, the husband did not do it, then housebreakers did.

And these days, one must assume that those housebreakers were drug addicts desperate for money or for something they can convert into money.