We have no meanings for "ordinary burglar" in our records yet.
1 It was possible, after all, that the man was an ordinary burglar .
2 It also meant that he hadn't been an ordinary burglar .
3 You would be shot down as an ordinary burglar and-thelaw would justify them for killing you.
4 For, had it been an ordinary burglar , the victim would at least have raised a protecting hand.
5 I mean that this person who undoubtedly entered your house might prove to be an ordinary burglar .
6 This had been no ordinary burglar .
7 So he insisted that I should treat him like an ordinary burglar - we had both forgotten Barbara's silly wager in our horror about father.
8 "Are these men ordinary burglars ? "
9 "But there is not much of that sort of thing done - the ordinary burglar doesn't understand the game," he went on, carelessly.
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