| Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, gypsies, beggars, cony-catchers, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished. |
| Is the statute's description of the society of cutpurses an accurate appraisal, or an attempt to link them with another outlawed culture? |
| Five or six cutpurses, one with a sword, attempt to mug Moll and her companions, Lord Noland, Sir Thomas Long, and Sir Beauteous Ganymede. |
| But the sails are star-sails and the ne'er-do-wells and cutpurses that inhabit the taverns each have enough eyes, heads and legs to equip an entire crew back on planet Earth. |
| Not even the moon shone on the black, starless night and the woman picked her way carefully across the city, keeping a wary eye out for cutpurses and nocturnal pickpockets. |
| To deal with thieves and cutpurses, we could institute a regime of total surveillance, and nullify all individual protections against search and seizure. |
