20 Metaphors for thiefs

One night, a quantity of hides were stolen from his tannery, and he had reason to believe that the thief was a quarrelsome, drunken neighbor, whom I will call John Smith.

I know that the gentleman-thief is a modern product of the old regime, but I did not know that the fraternity could show such a fine specimen as yourself.

The thief on the cross was a sinner, yet Christ took him to Paradise.

The thief, however, was pointed out, seized, and taken on board ship; the sextant was recovered, but Cook says, finding the thief to be "a hardened scoundrel, I punished him with greater severity than I have ever done any one before, and then dismissed him."

The thief was my own poor brother!"

However picturesque and chivalric, a thief is, after all, a thief.

According to a belief in Iceland, the trijadent (Spiraea ulmaria) will, if put under water on this day, reveal a thief; floating if the thief be a woman, and sinking if a man.

So I did not abandon the search until I had become fully satisfied that the thief is a more astute man than myself.

Thief, sneak, and son of a thief were the friendliest words he had for this little gray dog of the wilderness.

It might answer if the thief were an animal, but a human being is different.

On the following day, officers who had heard of the burglary, and that a thief was prisoner in the Maylie house, came from London to arrest him, but Dr. Losberne and Mrs. Maylie shielded him, and their joint bail was accepted for the boy's appearance in court if it should ever be required.

Thieves at least are a more interesting society, and I have found them so, Lawton, not only more interesting, but more honest.

The city is still subject to shocks of earthquake; the state of the police is horrible; street-robbery is common, and every thief is an assassin.

The thief placed on the left-hand side was much older than the other; a regular miscreant, who had corrupted the younger.

It's all up with me; I'm a cursed beggarand that thief is the cause of it.

The priest, almost beside himself with astonishment at finding the bread nibbled, the bait gone, and no rat in the trap, consulted his neighbours, who suggested, to his great alarm, that the thief must be a snake.

We hear much about what happens when thieves fall out, but my observation teaches me that thieves usually remain good friends.

But even then, robbed of all he had even to the clothes of his back, Don Sanchez's pride was unshaken, for he bade us note that the very thieves in Spain were gentlemen.

Unable to find employment, and with a character gone, the liberated thief became savage, revengeful, and desperate.

Was it possible that the thieves had been after the Admiralty and Foreign Office ciphers, copies of which the Chancelleries of certain European Powers were ever endeavoring to obtain?

20 Metaphors for  thiefs