The meaning of the term cutpurse was a lot clearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soprano Sorceress]

Even the cutpurse hobbled off as fast as he could.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

"You expect me to turn tail because of a cutpurse?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

Surely a cutpurse who would steal my money must need a blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

"Only wait a little, thou villain cutpurse, and yet I will have thee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

Well! From Amelia to a cutpurse, I've had quite an assortment tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

The four guards and the cutpurse gave back, eyeing him with growing alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

She had not been so desperate for silence since her brief days as a cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]

The heroic cutpurse and rogue, trying to make everybody's life a little bit better!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference

These precautions make the pouch immune to the customary approaches of the cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegades Of Gor]

He excludes "the insolence of office," and "the cutpurse of the empire and the rule.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870] Reference

Either it was a scheming little cutpurse, or some thieving woman, always after his money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]

Then someone stole my cloak, I nearly lost this Faire gig, and a cutpurse got my cash pouch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]

The Invincibles said he had begun as a cutpurse, and had descended into darker ways from that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire In His Hands]

" "Chenzira Umi speaks against this man, who is nothing more than a common thief and cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagers of Sin]

The pickpocket plied his trade, only he was then a cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of London] Reference

I feel as if only to think of it were lowering myself to the level of some cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Esquires The Jewel of France] Reference

“A beggar, most likely, or a cutpurse.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistaken Wife] Reference

I recognized your description of the cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]

"A cutpurse, with a dozen soldiers around you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

Were ruffian stabbers and vile cutpurse knaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference

Pistol becomes a cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Shakespeare] Reference

Get on with you, you cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala] Reference

Do you take me for a cutpurse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Move on, you cutpurse, move on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference

Then thou hast made him a cutpurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet] Reference

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet] Reference

QUOTATION: A cutpurse of the empire and the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

168A cutpurse of the empire and the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet] Reference

1638A cutpurse of the empire and the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

Away, cutpurse! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Cutthroat, yes; cutpurse, no! ”85.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Broken Pitcher. Book II] Reference

"And who are you, little cutpurse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time of the Twins]

Thou scurvy, cutpurse, outlaw knave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference

Except my money-the cutpurse has that. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]