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[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 21/1: [T]hose singular specimens of ingenious mechanism — ‘billies’ and ‘jimmies,’ ‘jacks,’ ‘braces,’ and ‘bits,’ — that have [...] formed the paraphernalia of a burglar’s outfit.at billy, n.4
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 21/1: [T]hose singular specimens of ingenious mechanism — ‘billies’ and ‘jimmies,’ ‘jacks,’ ‘braces,’ and ‘bits,’ — that have [...] formed the paraphernalia of a burglar’s outfit. [G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 12/2: ‘We’ll bleed the old covey tonight. D—n him he has had more swag than he’s a right to!’ .at bleed, v.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 15/1: ‘I must introduce you to our boys tonight — I s’pose you are ready to be initated’.at boys, the, n.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 12/2: ‘We’ll bleed the old covey tonight. D—n him he has had more swag than he’s a right to!’ .at covey, n.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 40/2: He [...] told him he had ‘cracked’ something, no matter what — and he wanted to ‘smash’ a bunch of the ‘soft’.at crack, v.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 38/1: Bill was on the watch for a chance to make a ‘crack’ .at crack, n.4
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 34/2: [T]he chief of police became aware of the fact that a man, known among the ‘cross’ as Bristol Bill, was in the city.at cross, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 29/2: His reputation as a ‘cracksman,’ and as a ‘captain of the cross’ had come with him from England.at captain of the cross (n.) under cross, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 25/1: ‘I can slip my darbies’ — and [...] , he dexterously twisted his hands, and the iron cuffs dropped from his wrists.at darby, n.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 15/2: The burglar evidently satisfied himself that Bill would prove no ‘flunkey,’ and that he was ready to be initiated into the mysteries of the gang.at flunky, n.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 55/1: [A]ll that renders his frontispiece imperfect is the loss of one eye.at frontispiece, n.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 36/1: Bill also gained the affections [...] of a young ‘girl of the town,’ [...] and she afterwards became his mistress.at girl about town (n.) under girl, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 44/2: [D]own, down she sank into the vilest holes of a crowded city, the companion of thieves and murderers, and rejoicing in the flash appellation of ‘Gookin Peg’.at gook, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 17/1: [He] described the plans usually pursued, when a great ‘haul’ was to be made.at haul, n.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 12/1: ‘We’ll have a pot of ’alf and ’alC and then come down and do the job’.at job, n.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 58/2: Ashley attempted to go bail for the notorious Smith Davis, his brother-in-law, (and King of the Koneyackers.at koniacker, n.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 27/1: [P]rovided no opportunity [...] offered for them to ‘lift the lush’ in their old professional manner.at lush, n.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 40/2: He [...] told him he had ‘cracked’ something, no matter what — and he wanted to ‘smash’ a bunch of the ‘soft’.at soft money, n.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 83/2: ‘I am determined to have those papers [...] if I am obliged to have Mr. McKeon ’s house “nippered,” or have the next house entered, if his is too secure’.at nipper, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 13/1: [H]e paced the room muttering to himself, expressions with regard to ‘peaching,’ and ‘the gang’.at peach, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 21/1: Inserting this [rod] in the key-hole, he began to ‘peg away’.at peg away (v.) under peg, v.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 58/2: What stool-pigeon arrangement was being concocted here?at stool-pigeon, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 27/2: [T]he prisoners felt that they must stand at the Bailey bar, and perhaps be ‘pinched for life’.at pinch, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 18/1: ‘[C]lear the old box of its heavy bags, but don’t ‘pull’ anything else’.at pull, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 50/2: [He] charged that Bristol Bill was the individual who ‘put up the game’ by which he was defrauded.at put up, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 13/1: It was apparent to all [...] that there was a screw loose somewhere.at a screw loose under screw, n.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 48/1: the City Marshall took upon himself the responsibility of [...] ‘showing up’ the woman as one of a gang of thieves and counterfeiters [...] Bill stood perfectly at ease, [...] looking carelessly at the crowd before him.at show up, v.
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 34/2: With such a ‘fence’ as Sam Drury [...] to ‘smash his plunder’ on, Bill had little else to look to than the skilful performance of the robberies themselves.at smash, v.2
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 45/1: The officer, without knowing who he was, any other than that he was a conspicuous and ‘spotted’ man, immediately took Bill into custody.at spot, v.1
[G. Thompson] Bristol Bill 35/1: Bill was introduced to two or three American crossmen, whom Hoppy pronounced ‘square’.at square, adj.
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