The 115 occurrences of jimmy
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One of the old reporters hurried him to the office again with his "copy," and after he had delivered that, he was sent to the Tombs to talk French to a man in Murderers' Row, who could not talk anything else, but who had shown some international skill in the use of a jimmy.
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Much of the noise was made by a lot of tickey-tailed little politicians who have no more religion than a rabbit, but who were trying to open a popular jack-pot with a jimmy.
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Next moment I saw the door wide open, and Raffles standing within and beckoning me with a jimmy.
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Guess that's going some, all right--BUT just among ourselves, you better start a rapidwhiz system to keep tabs as to how fast you'll buzz from low smoke spirits to TIP-TOP-HIGH--once you line up behind a jimmy pipe that's all aglow with that peach-of-a-pal, Prince Albert.
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"I thought he wanted one and wouldn't like to be a Jimmy Woodser."
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I use a jimmy, they use a ticker--that's all the difference."
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"Suppose you were the wife of the gentlemanly lawyer-thief who robbed me, using the law instead of a jimmy--would you bother your little head about my business?
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Then--he broke into a desk, using a paper knife for a jimmy."
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From him crooks can obtain anything from a jimmy to a safe-cracking outfit.
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Quietly as he could, he jimmied it open, muffling the jimmy in a felt cloth that was on a table.
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The marks made in breaking the lock were not those of a jimmy but of a screwdriver.
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If there's a man in this country with the spirit to break into that castle and steal that scarab and hand it back to me, there's five thousand waiting for him right here; and if he wants to he can knock that old safe blower on the head with a jimmy into the bargain."
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"The door's been forced with a jimmy," said the porter.
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Fletcher swung the door wide, and pointed to a little compartment inside, whose steel door had been jimmied open.
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Kennedy nodded and continued to examine the place where the compartment had been jimmied.
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Then he pried off the door of the interior compartment which had been jimmied open.
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Then he took a jimmy and pressed on it with all his strength.
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There was a Jimmy Skunk then, just as there is now, and he was head of all the Skunk family.
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You can't get a word out of the Duchess with a jimmy, unless she wants to talk--and she never wants to talk."
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Late that afternoon, when Dick, just returned from the city, dropped into, as was his before-dinner custom, the office-study which had been set aside for Larry's use, Larry, after an adroit approach to his subject, continued: "And since I've been wished on you as a sort of step-uncle, there's something I'd like to suggest--if I don't seem to be fairly jimmying my way into your affairs."
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As a friend of mine picturesquely phrased it, I "had to break into the organization with a jimmy."
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Of course, they don't go out and frisk any one and they don't work with a jimmy or a bottle of soup.
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What's a jimmy and a centrebit and an acetylene welding plant and a bunch of skeleton keys?
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Equipment up to that time had been a glass cutter and a jimmy for back windows and padlocks."
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From him crooks can obtain anything from a jimmy to a safe-cracking outfit.
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Quietly as he could, he jimmied it open, muffling the jimmy in a felt cloth that was on a table.
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The marks made in breaking the lock were not those of a jimmy but of a screwdriver.
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With a jimmy eighteen inches long even an anaemic burglar can exert a pressure sufficient to lift two tons.
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He had discovered a false back of one of the drawers in the desk and had jimmied it open.
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It had been jimmied open in the few minutes while she was down-stairs.
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With a jimmy eighteen inches long, even an anemic burglar can exert a pressure sufficient to lift two tons.
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The test is made by inserting the end of a jimmy or other burglar's tool and endeavouring to produce impressions similar to those which have been found on doors or windows.
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The marks made in breaking the lock were not those of a jimmy, but of a screwdriver.
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There, plainly, were marks of a jimmy which had been inserted near the lock to pry it open.
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"Scientific jimmying," gasped Garrick, as the door bulged more and more and seemed almost to threaten to topple in at any moment.
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It was not even an artistic job of jimmying."
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MAGGIE: Oh, I don't mind thim, they can steal nothin' from me but me old man, and they're welcome to him without usin' a jimmy.
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FLYNN: A jimmy?
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To-night"--he extended his right arm forensically--"a deppitation of Chinks waits on me at the dock gates; they explains as from a patriotic point of view they feels it to be their dooty to buy that pigtail off of me, and they bids a quid, a bar of gold--a Jimmy o' Goblin!"
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As he rose she naively displayed a jimmy and two flashlights.
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She stooped over for a rapid survey, then with incredible swiftness jimmied the shop door.
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"Oh, Lord!" said Vaux, "we jimmied the door.
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Then, giving the canvas package a closer glance of inspection, Hardwicke pressed the edge of his tulwar to Jack Blunt's throat, when he had closed the window, half raised, and shut the shutter so neatly forced with a jimmy.
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When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig up anything you need, from a jig dance to a jimmy and a bottle of soup."
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"So you're going to use a Jimmy instead, eh?" countered Blake.
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I don't think I could have got in at all if some one hadn't been ahead of me with a jimmy, or an axe, or something of that kind."
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I bought this blouse and blue cap, and a jimmy, and at one o'clock in the morning I came to the Rue du Provence to hang about my lodgings waiting until the patrol should pass, to commence my robbery, my burglary, in order to be copped!"
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He lighted a jimmy-pipe and marched up and down the room.
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The drawer had been forced by a jimmy of some sort, judging from the indentations in the wood.
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That collection of little steel picklocks--and a jimmy!
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So some time between seven o'clock and halfpast eleven, Mr. Magpie got into the courtyard, put a jimmy at work on the bathroom window beyond the bedroom there, got busy--more likely to be nearer eleven than seven--he would have been back before now, otherwise, eh?"
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A jimmy found and nosed its way into the joint between two panels.
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"Say!" said Billy, with enthusiasm, "I never thought I'd be even in the same room with one of that family, 'less I prized open the door with a jimmy."
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Putty was a big fellow and very handy with a jimmy; but he was awful contrary-minded, and he wouldn't agree to clean out Jerry until I promised to go halves with him.
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A jimmy had been pushed between the frame and the door near the bolt, and the door had been pried open, the bolt being torn away from the screws in the operation.
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He says that they were in the alley, in the act of jimmying a window, and all at once Kinney straightened up as if something had hit him and let the jimmy fall with a thump to the pavement.
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He must be making himself a jimmy or a dark-lantern to break into our vegetable cellar with."
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Presently he put down his pack, went to a window and, quick and silent as an expert burglar, jimmied the sash.
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"It is true that during their reign I had one visitor, a scurvy little wry-faced knave who sneaked in through the scullery window; but I think he had no connection with them or he would have entered by some more convenient route and have used a false key instead of a jimmy to open the safe.
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Rob a miser's safe and he's broke; but you can't break a big merchant with a jimmy and a stick of dynamite.
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Finally we jimmied open the back door of this garage, just to find out whether those guys had a car out here, or not.
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"It sounds good," Bunch acquiesced, "and I'll give you an imitation of the best little amateur cracksman that ever swung a jimmy.
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"If ye expect to dhraw anny coin fr'm that there masheen, ye may call on some iv ye'er rough frinds down town f'r a brace an' bit an' a jimmy.
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'Tis th' histhry iv th' wurruld that th' Jews takes our watches fr'm us be tin per cint a month, an' we take thim back be means iv a jimmy an' a piece iv lead pipe.
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If the newspapers were to get on to the fact that the son of _the_ Mrs. De Peyster had secretly married without his mother's knowledge, and that the young scamp and his wife were secretly living in her house--can't you just see the reporters jimmying open every window to get at us!"
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'Swore it was a genuine pearl of priceless value, and was willing to deprive himself of it for the trifling sum of half a jimmy.
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Your purity and innocence has been remarked by all who have met you, and there are none who would dare to intimate but that you would maintain your reputation against any attack, but sometimes we think we should hesitate to leave you all alone, with the light turned down all night and over Sunday, in the company of an eloquent, persuasive, good-looking burglar armed with a jimmy, and we fear that his warm hearted can of powder would strike a responsive chord in your impulsive nature, and that you would yield up the jewels confined to you, and your honor, your reputation, your standing among safes would be forever ruined.
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The Hopper possessed himself also of a jimmy and an electric lamp.
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Any house would have been easy for "Crackerjack" if he had possessed the open sesame of his kit of burglar's tools, but he had not had a jimmy in his hand since he was caught with one and sent to Sing Sing.
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And he couldn't break into that world with a jimmy.
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And doesn't it beat a jimmy when it comes to breaking into society!"
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Similarly, to pry open the back door would require the services of a jimmy (whatever that might be).
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One of the old reporters hurried him to the office again with his "copy," and after he had delivered that, he was sent to the Tombs to talk French to a man in Murderers' Row, who could not talk anything else, but who had shown some international skill in the use of a jimmy.
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One of the old reporters hurried him to the office again with his "copy," and after he had delivered that, he was sent to the Tombs to talk French to a man in Murderer's Row, who could not talk anything else, but who had shown some international skill in the use of a jimmy.
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A Jimmy who spoke very little, and asked no questions at all, and who took the letter apathetically enough, and laid it by as soon as he had read it.
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The crime unquestionably was an outside job; the window opening on the fire-escape had been jimmied, the marks left being clearly visible.
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_Burglary:_ There is no objection to a burglary scene in a picture so long as there is no actual demonstration of the act of burglarizing; for instance, the burglar may be shown entering through an open window, but must not be shown in the act of "jimmying" the window.
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"If you was to meet a burglar coming into the store at midnight with a jimmy and a dark lantern, Mawruss, I suppose you'd volunteer to give him the combination of the safe.
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As a matter of burglarious fact it was a jimmy of fineness and finish.
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He was caught before he had succeeded in 'jimmying' the door, so that the letter must have been delivered at the Collins house.
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I don't think I could have got in at all if some one hadn't been ahead of me with a jimmy, or an axe, or something of that kind."
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First, that in Chatham, Massachusetts, as in the Valley of Virginia, there is probably a Jimmy Hancock buzzing about.
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We really might have gone off, the whole lot of us, masterful staff officer, dainty registration clerks, highly efficient stenographer, etc., and had a good time; he would have run the show perfectly well without us--a Hirst, a Jimmy Wilde, a "Tetrarch," as he was amongst scouts.
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Still, she'd raved over our string-beans, so when she makes a last fluttery try at jimmyin' her way into the conversation, and Mrs. Foote squelches her prompt again, and she gives up for good, it's me jumpin' snappy to tow her out and tuck her in the limousine.
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"What with, a jimmy?"
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"Got a scalin' ladder and a jimmy in your pocket?" says I.
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"Gee!" says I to Pinckney, "I'm glad the yachtin' season's most over when I begin; if it wa'n't I'm thinkin' I'd have to go out nights with a jimmy."
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"Aw, come off!" was Jimmied disgusted sally.
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He must be making himself a jimmy or a dark-lantern to break into our vegetable cellar with."
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He jimmied the timer on the rocket motor so it would fire to the last drop.
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"And where it will be at the mercy of the first man with a jimmy and a blow lamp.
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He wanted John to stay over that night and stand watch while he, Scorch, opened the safe with something he called a jimmy!"
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He would be callow, indeed, who would predicate that a professional burglar would hesitate to commit highway robbery because his weapon was a jimmy, or that a panel thief would turn up his nose at picking an inviting pocket.
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But Dutch's was jimmied the same as his and Lester's.
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Now she began to see the other Kind; the Kind that Wears a Cutaway, with a White Flower, in the Morning, a Frock, with Violets, in the Afternoon, and a jimmy little Tuxedo at Night.
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To think of women going about nights with a jimmy and a dark lantern, and opening doors, or windows, and sneaking about rooms, is degrading.
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You have no idea how much misapplied talent goes roaming about of nights with a jimmy and a dark lantern.
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But that josser of a Jimmy, talking like that at his ease!
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But, in her own mind: "That son of a gun of a Jimmy!" she thought.
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And that coward of a Jimmy, to obey Harrasford's order!