Sentence examples for picking a pocket from inspiring English sources
In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of "thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket".
On 19 May 1724, Sheppard was arrested for a second time, caught in the act of picking a pocket in Leicester Fields (near present-day Leicester Square).
Pick a pocket or two thousand of song titles, and bring me your booty!
If you are being pursued by murderers — or trying to evade an army, pick a pocket, or hide a time machine — it is obvious why you would want to turn invisible.
(The New York Times) Pick a Pocket or Two The presence of security officers and cameras have helped keep airports safe, but travelers are falling victim to pickpocketing and purse snatching once they venture into tourist hubs and cities.
If you are being pursued by murderers or trying to evade an army, pick a pocket, or hide a time machine it is obvious why you would want to turn invisible.
The landlord isn't an investor or Dickensian character trying to pick a pocket or two but a housing association who paid their chief executives an average of £167,500 per year.
And ultimately that's what Mr. Jay and "On the Stem" are about: remembering -- and not just the mathematics of playing cards or the sleight-of-hand required to pick a pocket.
The poor fellow ended up needing to pick a pocket or two as much as Fagin himself, wrecked and destitute, even though Mackintosh generously cut the composer back into some of the stage rights he sold off in his darkest hour.
Thanks to screen adaptations, including the luscious 1996 TV outing with Alex Kingston, Moll is lodged in the public imagination as a good-time girl with a big heart, loose morals and a saucy wink as she picks a pocket or leads a punter up a dark alley.
