cutpurse

We rate people like you as less troublesome than a cutpurse.

"You expect me to turn tail because of a cutpurse?"

The meaning of the term cutpurse was a lot clearer.

The cook always claimed my father was some thief or cutpurse.

No point in inviting the attentions of a possible cutpurse.

It did not feel like a deep cut, and no cutpurse would have slashed his forearm.

That gave the thief warning, and the cutpurse quickly ran back into the crowd.

This would-be cutpurse hit the ground hard, his eyes unfocused.

The four guards and the cutpurse gave back, eyeing him with growing alarm.

She'd deserved better than a knife in the back from some nameless cutpurse.

Either it was a scheming little cutpurse, or some thieving woman, always after his money.

Even the cutpurse hobbled off as fast as he could.

From Amelia to a cutpurse, I've had quite an assortment tonight.

These precautions make the pouch immune to the customary approaches of the cutpurse.

Upon my entrance the cutpurse looked up from his conversation with Moll and scowled.

That little cutpurse just stole the bag with his widow's payment for it all!"

He was a skinny, bright-eyed little fellow with the feral look of a cutpurse to him.

If the man had been a cutpurse or pickpocket he had missed his grab.

Not an assassin this time-a cutpurse, probably, for the man was making no attempt at silence.

"A cutpurse, with a dozen soldiers around you?"

They'll let a cutpurse or a grifter go rather than do that."

The Mouser went toward the altar and began to saw at the lashings of the cutpurse.

We read the poetry of Francois Villon, who was a cutpurse.

I recognized your description of the cutpurse.

A cutpurse had tried to take Ilissa's coin, not knowing her for royalty.