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"Holdup" Quotes from Famous Books

... add, Hugo," Drake cut in angrily, "that I had in mind the hope of being able to protect the bank in case of a holdup!" ...

— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

... that "Gink" Cummings had ordered that crime be stopped in Los Angeles was substantiated by the developments of the following week. The crime wave that had been sweeping the city, as it had the nation, came to an abrupt halt. During the week only one holdup was reported to the police and prohibition officers were surprised to find that bootleggers had stopped their work. There were no burglaries, gambling, picking of pockets, bunko swindling or handbook betting. The traffic in narcotics, police and federal officers reported, ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... down here whistling to me, and when I went Six said as how the dogs way over at the store was barking a lot, and he said had I seen or heard anything in the willows—he's that young fellow that 'listed back at Wickenburg after the stage holdup—and while we was talkin' he grabbed me and said, 'Listen! There's Indians out on the bluff! I heard 'em singing.' I told him he was scared, but when I came back along the bank I could have sworn I saw something go flashing into the willows from this side, an' then ...

— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King

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