Hold-ups on the streets, with pistol accompaniments, were frequent in the City of Seattle; Burglaries were the regular order of business; no man was safe in the streets after nightfall; in fact, fear had become so intensified that in the visitation of one neighbor to another's house after dark, the visitant, after proper precautions, was received with pistol in hand.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Well, we don't have weekly Burglaries on our side.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
We are most careful to have our doors locked, and our windows fastened, and our "burglar alarm" set at times when thieves are most busy, and at a season of the year when diseases are most active in their Burglaries of life we need to be ready.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage