Sentence examples for cutpurse from inspiring English sources

He lived with a Shoreditch woman described as a "ragged quean" (prostitute) and the sister of an executed cutpurse.

There's something extremely impressive about Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil's debut novel, an Elizabethan tale set in London in 1592, based around the exploits of the young nipper (or cutpurse) Jack.

The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker follows "fearless and feisty" Moll Cutpurse who "unmans all who cross her path" and was last played at the RSC by Helen Mirren in 1983.

Barbican, London, 1 to 25 May The Roaring Girl Director Jo Davies has described this comedy by Dekker and Middleton as "a sort of Jacobean Pussy Riot", so we are on tenterhooks to see who she will cast as the feisty, cross-dressing swaggerer Moll Cutpurse, a role last played at the RSC 30 years ago by Helen Mirren.

The word was coined in the 1980s and it is generally applied to books set in an alternative history – as Gideon the Cutpurse is – in which steam power is widely used.

There's Moll Cutpurse, pimp and gangmaster; Kentish Moll who passes herself off as a German princess; and Moll King, whose light-fingered approach to life gets her sent to Virginia.

It does seem to be the East End's ultimate sinkhole, Hell's High Street, populated by cutpurses and pox-ridden grotesques and accessed by a portal that only opens on a full moon at the sacrifice of a vestal saveloy.

Then, as now, I accept it as an accurate representation of an 1830s London where constables and cutpurses temporarily set aside their differences in order to congregate for a knees-up beside some tavern or other.

You're most likely to qualify if you belong to one of the City livery companies: medieval guilds such as the worshipful company of costermongers, cutpurses and safecrackers.

Set literally in the dying days of Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, this 1881 novel tells of two wishful 10-year-old boys who swap identities -- one a London street urchin fathered by the leader of a band of cutpurses and ruffians; the other, the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne that he would occupy as Edward VI from 1547 to 1553.

Cutpurses hid in the shadows of the unlit back streets.