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Cutpurse   Listen
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Cutpurse  n.  One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket "To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse."






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"Cutpurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Athenian Society To Mr. Congreve Occasioned by Sir William Temple's late illness and recovery Written in a Lady's Ivory Table Book Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition A Ballad on the game of Traffic A Ballad to the tune of the Cutpurse The Discovery The Problem The Description of a Salamander To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough On the Union On Mrs. Biddy Floyd The Reverse Apollo Outwitted Answer to Lines from May Fair Vanbrugh's House Vanbrugh's ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... the square, the cattle mart was drawing many, who listened to the noise of the beasts and the shouts of the vendors. Some paused to bargain. Others simply strode about, still looking for the things they had come to seek out. Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of ...
— Millennium • Everett B. Cole

... a Villaine: A Slaue, that is not twentieth part the tythe [Sidenote: part the kyth] Of your precedent Lord. A vice[7] of Kings, A Cutpurse of the Empire and the Rule. That from a shelfe, the precious Diadem stole, And put it in ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... a villain: A slave that is not twentieth part the tythe Of your precedent lord;—a vice of kings;[130] A cutpurse of the empire and the rule; That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare

... of Westminster.—I am not quite of DR. RIMBAULT'S opinion, that Long Meg of Westminster is a fictitious personage. I believe her to have been as much a real wonton as Moll Cutpurse was a ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 41, Saturday, August 10, 1850 • Various



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