If any dark, designful strangers should intrude themselves upon the party, unbidden, the gentlemen present should by no means exhibit the slightest disposition to resent the intrusion, or to show fight, as the strangers are sure to be professional thieves, and, as such, ready to commit murder, if necessary.

The little thief ran away with the whip in his hand, and it was long before the incident was recalled to me.

And yet, if I had been there, the cleverest thief in Paris, if not in the world, would be safe behind those chrome-nickle steel bars at the Twenty-third Street station, instead of at liberty to go ahead and rob somebody else.

Their camp had been pitched just at the outskirts of the Indian village, but the snake dance was to take place in a rocky glen some distance away from the pueblo and so Uncle John instructed Wampus to remain and guard their outfit, as the Moki are notorious thieves.

Chater, although one of the most expert jewel thieves in Europe, had never been actually guilty of any graver offense, and when we heard that he was in San Francisco, where he had opened a small bar and was trying to live honestly, we resolved to allow him to remain there.

Never had these expert observers seen a genuine convert, but only hypocrites, liars, petty thieves, and grafters.

As to the first man, the actual thief, there could be no doubt about his crime, for he was actually wheeling the two or three shovelfuls of malt in a barrow; so there was not much use in defending him.

This is a penitent thief who desires to make a confession.

" "Nay, thou naughty varlet," quoth the Sheriff, turning his head and looking right grimly upon Will Stutely, "thou shalt have no sword but shall die a mean death, as beseemeth a vile thief like thee.

Why were you in such a turmoil going through a house where you could have expected to find nothing worse than some miserable sneak thief?" This was a poser.

ATTILA and the hordes he led were honest thieves, who made no hypocritical pretences to virtue in order to hide their real motives.

"Betcha five even he arrests you for a hoss thief.

The dexterity of experienced thieves shews, that no small degree of care and attention is bestowed on their tuition.

"Rab, ye thief!" said he, aiming a kick at my great friend, who drew cringing up, and, avoiding the heavy shoe with more agility than dignity and watching his master's eye?

"M. le Comte has flatly refused this time to pay these abominable thieves for the recovery of Carissimo.

CHESTERTON, GILBERT K. The ecstatic thief.

"Anyhow, the company is less mixed," he said, "than it was all winter up at twenty-three, where they had a Presbyterian missionary down the shaft, a Salvation Army captain turnin' the windlass, a nigger thief dumpin' the becket, and a dignitary of the Church of England doin' the cookin', with the help of a Chinese chore-boy.

Suddenly, out of the earth a coyote came forth at a swinging trot that was taking the cunning thief toward the hills and the village beyond.

you bloody thieves!

Not a trace of the whereabouts of the mean thief had been discovered.

I won't be buried alongside any such dirty, mean thieves.

" "I am sorry, my lord," returned the impudent thief, "I cannot trace the links of consanguinity; but the moral evidence is sufficiently pertinent.

I am sorry for it too, as to thy part; for two reasonsone, that I think thy motive for thy curiosity was fear of consciousness: whereas that of the arch-thief was vanity, intolerable vanity: and he was therefore justly sent away with a blush upon his cheeks to heaven, and could not bragthe other, that I am afraid, if she dislikes thee, she dislikes me: for are we not birds of a feather?

" When he had thus spoken he looked before him, and marked four armed thieves, seated on four strong horses, and each bore lance in hand.

Habitual thieves, you know, often have curious superstitions, and some will never take anything without leaving something behinda pebble or a piece of coal, or something like thatin the premises they have been robbing.