Burglar

(noun.) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal.

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• Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You must remember that we are dealing with a burglar who is a very peculiar fellow, and who appears to work on lines of his own. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He must have been a very poor burglar. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Then he carefully scrutinized the broken and frayed end where it had snapped off when the burglar had dragged it down. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Chubb, in 1835, patented a process of rendering wooden safes burglar proof by lining them with steel, or case-hardened iron plate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then another man, who ran a burglar-alarm company, obtained permission to hang up the telephone in a few banks. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• What can you expect, when you take one's breath away, creeping in like a burglar, and letting cats out of bags like that? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This was clearly what the burglar had done, so I went round and opened the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The burglar, sir. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I suppose he wants to find out some clue as to the burglary last night, if a burglar it was. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• How did the burglar know no one would hear it? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• When there is no more to be got out of them, he turns burglar or pickpocket, or robs a temple. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• These men all had complete faith in his ability and stood by him as on a rock, guarding their work with the secretiveness of a burglar-proof safe. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• All these four Anges were grim and grey as burglars, and cold and vapid as ghosts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• These burglars made a considerable haul at Sydenham a fortnight ago. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We must make it appear that burglars had done the thing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He rushed at the burglars, but another--it was an elderly man--stooped, picked the poker out of the grate and struck him a horrible blow as he passed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You remember that Lewisham gang of burglars? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Still later and more elaborate means have been used to frustrate the burglars. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Naturally my first thought was of burglars. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Calling on his nearest friend the next morning for even a pair of suspenders, Mr. Andrews was met with regrets of inability, because the burglars had also been there. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Yes, it was by their light and that of the lady's bedroom candle, that the burglars saw their way about. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• What sort of burglars are they who steal silver and then throw it into the nearest pond? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Thus for the burglars is selected, not the eighth tablet, but the one on which is recommended a day of rest from labor; to the happily married is preached the seventh commandment. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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