How To Use Jemmy In A Sentence

  • Now to return to the youth in the corner: _Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit_, Jemmy keep your money, or give it to the priest to keep, and it will be safest; but by no means let the Hyblean honey of the schoolmaster's blarney deprive you of it, otherwise it will be a _vale, vale, longum vale_ between you. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
  • You don't try to break into a bank by jemmying the front door. Frost at Christmas
  • `Once we heard, we sent our Jemmy around with the grommet, Tim, to round up all the folks who played their part. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • `Once we heard, we sent our Jemmy around with the grommet, Tim, to round up all the folks who played their part. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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  • Devon and Cornwall Police has said it is investigating claims that officers illegally tried to "jemmy" the locked door with their metal batons after one of them dropped their phone in the back of the car during a search. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Now, "says he, leaning close," I'll lay odds the Holnup will come through the garden in the dead watch, around four, lay out the sentry quietly, jemmy the door, then upstairs and good-night Franz-Josef, all hail Crown Prince Rudolf! Watershed
  • The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked 'jemmy' line, or the fire-wood and hearth-stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen-pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
  • Your lock picks, your jemmy and your glass cutter and whatever else you carry round with you on your nocturnal wanderings. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • Where would be all this fine crockery work for your breakfast? you might pop your head under a pump, or drink out of your own paw; what would you do for that fine jemmy tye? Cecilia
  • For this was the jemmy in the door of national sovereignty.
  • The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
  • Will the "Brownites" risk using a jemmy to get him out if he is reluctant to go? Tony Blair: It's Nearly All Over
  • Jemmy Button would not eat land-birds, because “eat dead men”: they are unwilling even to mention their dead friends. Chapter X
  • Anyway, by climbing up the cherry tree, swinging across to the balcony and jemmying the window, we soon found that getting in through the bathroom was a doddle.
  • Mr Hindley deems this assertion a gross libel, showing that the "dirtiness" of Jemmy was inevitable, owing to his officiating in every department as pressman, compositor, devil, &c., and being handy at all points. James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 2
  • Ere they went below, however, she called the grinning Jemmy to her, and, to his private grief and public shame, tucked his head under her arm and kissed him fondly. Many Cargoes
  • Jemmy has gone ahead and will have told them about the latest revelations. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
  • For them she labored and toiled, and "moiled," as she used to say; and worked herself into oil to get them bread, and a pink ribbon for the baby's shoulder knot, and a navy cap, with "Hero" in gold letters for Jemmy. My New Curate
  • Wait a bit," said the acuter intelligence of Jemmy Vetch. For the term of his natural life
  • jemmy" the police said when the wound, with the wounds upon the forehead, had been examined beneath a microscope. The Four Faces A Mystery
  • `Once we heard, we sent our Jemmy around with the grommet, Tim, to round up all the folks who played their part. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Up the side he scrambles, with the help of a side-ladder, all togged out to the nines in a span-new blue jacket and anchor buttons, a cap with a gould band, and white ducks made to fit -- as jemmy-jessamy a looking fellow as you'd see of a cruise along London parks, with the waterman singing out alongside to send down The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
  • It is undisputed that the small ‘transom’ window was forced open with a screwdriver or jemmy.
  • He cleaned the grave out, procured some reddle and water, brushed the bricks over with it, and informed the person that he had a most excellent _second-hand grave to sell as good as new_, and if she thought it would suit her poor departed friend, would let her have it at half the price of a new one: this was too good an offer to be rejected; but Jemmy found, on measuring the coffin, that his second-hand grave was too short, and consequently was obliged to dig the earth away from the end of the grave and beat the bricks in with a beetle, before it would admit its new tenant. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • Jemmy was relieved to see Andrew grinning up into the lighted dininghall windows. Destiny's Road
  • A jemmy had been used to force the double glazed front door regardless of its five locking points.
  • Then he began to deal out his drolleries, such as would make the dismallest jemmy guffaw, and gave vent to all manner of buffooneries; but the Caliph laughed not neither smiled, whereat The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • The burglar climbed through an open sliding-glass window after jemmying open a security screen in Mr Miller's home in Gillingham Court, Kirwan. Townsville Bulletin Latest News
  • It was forced off by either a crowbar or a jemmy and it must have been difficult to get off.
  • The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Sketches by Boz
  • Both the government and the opposition insist that they won't back down of their dispute over the re-election of president Ahamadnijad. Jemmy Boean reports from Tehran.
  • This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
  • I don't think Friday's incident was a serious attempt to break into the shop as they had just used a crowbar to jemmy the shutters apart.
  • Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • The other had contained a jemmy, cans of spray paint, wire cutters, a brace and bit, and shears.
  • The door lock had been wrenched with a jemmy or similar instrument. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • Cloake generally used to break into homes by " jemmying " open windows in bedrooms or near the back of the house with a screwdriver.
  • Cos I work most nights until three or four in the morning, there was always some bastard jemmying the padlock off the doors: kids, dossers. Above Suspicion
  • The typical villain doesn't go out after 10 pm in a stripey jersey, carrying a jemmy and a bag with Swag written on it.
  • in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy
  • Your lock picks, your jemmy and your glass cutter and whatever else you carry round with you on your nocturnal wanderings. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • Gritting his teeth, Jemmy climbed up, doing his best to look as capable as any knight errant, but his tonnish intentions only got him into trouble. Hero Come Back
  • Gerald sat in the window, his friend Jemmy hanging over him, and the two together composing a marvellous battlepiece, in which Gerald drew horses, men, cannon, and arrows, and The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
  • Miss Kelly said their attempt to jemmy the shop door set off the burglar alarm alerting passing motorist Andrew Carlton.
  • The head added that the thieves caused a lot of damage jemmying open locked doors and filing cabinets.
  • A tool, perhaps a jemmy, was used to open a rear door, but the thieves failed to get inside the car.
  • Up the side he scrambles, with the help of a side-ladder, all togged out to the nines in a span-new blue jacket and anchor buttons, a cap with a gould band, and white ducks made to fit -- as jemmy-jessamy a looking fellow as you'd see of a cruise along London parks, with the waterman singing out alongside to send down The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
  • If a man is found by the police busy with "jemmy" and dark lantern at a jeweller's shop door over night, the magistrate before whom he is brought the next morning, reasons from those effects to their causes in the fellow's "burglarious" ideas and volitions, with perfect confidence, and punishes him accordingly. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
  • Ay, ay, Jemmy," said he, "'tis easy for you to bid me get on, but how the deuce can I make Rob Roy's wife speak, with such a _curmurring_ in my guts? Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
  • I do own and use a car, but if I have a jemmy, I certainly don't carry it around.
  • And that's odd, really, since a sectional jemmy would have opened it up as easy as you like. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • The door lock had been wrenched with a jemmy or similar instrument. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • He then provided the usual implements: plenty of false keys, a strong crow-bar, technically called a jemmy, an instrument used for cleaning bricks, some spirits and a slight provision of bread and meat. Ralph Rashleigh

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