There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty.
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Rifled
Synonyms for "rifled" (16 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- нарезен adj (having a spiral groove on the inside of a gun barrel)
Finnish
1 entries- rihlattu adj (having a spiral groove on the inside of a gun barrel)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nòng rãnh adj (having a spiral groove on the inside of a gun barrel)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The police theory is that a most sensational crime has been committed, that the victim was clubbed to death in his own bedroom, his papers rifled, and his dead body dragged across to the wood-stack, which was then ignited so as to hide all traces of the crime.
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He told us that the train had been robbed of its gold bricks, by five men, three of whom, dressed like Indians, rifled the baggage car while the others held the passengers at bay; that the engine was hopelessly wrecked, the engineer killed; that the robbers had escaped on horseback with their booty; and that men had been sent to the nearest telegraph station to “wire” for another engine and a supply of workmen.
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