He was determined now that the fellow should have a lesson indeed; so while he held him at arm's length with one hand, he pummeled him with the other until his face was a mass of bruises; and then, when the yeggman was in a condition bordering upon insensibility, Nick raised him bodily from his feet, and holding him in his arms, ran with him down along the path toward the water. ❋ Nicholas Carter (N/A)
Before the yeggman could make reply the girl spoke up quickly. ❋ Unknown (1918)
I always wanted to be a brakie, and then a yeggman. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
They were not very easily converted into cash by any of them and as they all believed I was really a yeggman they finally let me into their secrets. '' ❋ Unknown (1916)
Soapy, among other accomplishments, was a yeggman renowned in the profession, and very soon the heavy door swung softly back, and Soapy became lost in study. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
He had scarcely got as far as describing the work of the suspected hired yeggman, when ❋ Unknown (1908)
She must have put them somewhere before she got the yeggman to break the safe. ❋ Unknown (1908)
From the comparatively quiet life of a not markedly industrious yeggman Brown came out of the upper floor of a State ❋ Sherwood Anderson (1908)
The yeggman, a strongly built slow talking man, looked like a skilled mechanic of a locomotive engineer. ❋ Sherwood Anderson (1908)
The very isolation of the house was now our protection, for we had no inquisitive neighbors to watch us for the instant when Kennedy, with the dexterity of a yeggman, inserted his knife between the sashes of the kitchen window and turned the catch which admitted us. ❋ Unknown (1908)
The yeggman had been after what was more valuable than jewels -- letters! ❋ Unknown (1908)
This hydroaeroplane yeggman is after something besides jewels to-night. ❋ Unknown (1908)
"If you can find out more about this yeggman, so much the better." ❋ Unknown (1908)
He must have been above the average, but everything points to the work of a yeggman. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Bluffwood, the yeggman was to get something of interest and importance to his client. ❋ Unknown (1908)
So matters went along for ten years, Tim bringing me the fifteen dollars every month and coming frequently to see me in between, often bringing along his brother Murphy, who is a yeggman. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)
It reminded him very much of his friend the yeggman in New York. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)
Pickpocket, supper man, second-story man, yeggman, boxman, all-round burglar, cardsharp and slickest con man west of the Twenty-third Street ferry landing -- that's my history. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
It is easy enough for any one of us to make ourself up as a tramp, or a hobo, or even a yeggman, and to play the part; but in this case we must do more than that: We must be the part. " ❋ Nicholas Carter (N/A)
