In a minute or so Sally pelts up the stairs, leaving Ann and the cook to thumbscrew on the shutter-panels of the street door, and make sure that housebreaker-baffling bells are susceptible.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
His cottage had been entered by no ordinary housebreaker, for the purpose of plunder, but with a set of false keys, and with a far more serious object.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
I run up to the window, I see the Rebbe is really in the room, he is walking up and down, I am about to enter like a housebreaker.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz