When they wanted it again, it was always ready; and if the Ben's City Cracksmen ever came that way to look at the safe, they concluded that the proprietor would prove an ugly customer, for it was never disturbed.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Cashier, consider what regular and desperate Cracksmen would have done to you!
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
This motion, which was probably no gratifying ceremony, Job negatived with a dictatorial air, and reminded his comrades that however they might find it convenient to lower themselves occasionally, yet that they were gentlemen sharpers, and not vulgar Cracksmen and cly-fakers, and that, therefore, they ought to welcome me with the good breeding appropriate to their station.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009