He felt that he could trust an ordinary crook; but not a detective who had double-crossed the law.

He wasn't an ordinary crook, this fellow.

"Then it must be ordinary crooks that worry you?"

He isn't an ordinary crook, but I'm going to get his record, if he's got one at all.

He was nothing but an ordinary crook--backed by brains.

Don't dismiss book theft as the work of a few ordinary crooks.

They were sleek-looking chaps, which made her realize that they weren't ordinary crooks.

The worst in the line of ordinary, nonpolitical crooks, I mean.

They weren't ordinary crooks, but men who had served as rough-and-ready members of certain expeditions on which Gorth had gone.

But these people are not ordinary crooks.