19 collocations for thieves

The fact that Coronado dared ride into this camp of thieving assassins shows what risks he could force himself to run when he thought it necessary.

"I will sell her to a zoo in some other land, where they are not so kind to thieving horse-creatures!"

"David, I am ready to die for you, What need have I of salt and butter; forty thieving Dews have come and driven away our calves.

I always did hate scenes and explanations, and long before he came I was out of it allgoing home to Banya along the coast, hiding in bushes by day, and thieving food from the villages by night.

Long-look'd for day's sun, when wilt thou ascend? Let not this thieve friend, misty veil of night, Encroach on day, and shadow thy fair light, Whilst thou com'st tardy from thy Thetis' bed, Blushing forth golden hair and glorious red; O, stay not long, bright lanthorn of the day, To light my miss'd-way feet to my right way!

If Zia Agnese do but this, she'll counter The Evil Eye, and maybe with her own Detect who thieves her Serafina's hay.

I see; a vagabond bee, intent on thieving honey from the flowers, has mistaken her mouth for a rosebud, and is trying to settle upon it.

And therefore, after vainly attempting to quiet the insurrection, with whose principal aims he had confessed himself in sympathy, he turned upon the peasants in almost savage wrath, and in his tract "Against the Murdering, Thieving Hordes of Peasants," he urged the princes to crush the insurrection.

It was pretty evident they thought they were about to encounter a band of thieving Indians, but as they came closer they recognized the strangers as Americans and passed the compliments with them in a rather friendly manner.

"Such a blackguard, dirty, thieving job never was up before in my time.

" "Ha!" sneered Beltane, "what matter for that an it shelter but murderers and thieving knaves" "Dost name me murderer?" growled Walkyn.

"These are no People of the Black Tents, no Beni Harb, nor thieving Meccans.

One package had been torn open, and its contents scattered, which showed that the wolf had already started thieving operations; so that even if Oily Dave and his companion had contemplated no raid on the cache, there would not have been much left later which was worth carrying away.

We trust that the youthful villain Charlton will not be allowed to escape, but that he will receive the long term provided by the law for thieving postmasters.

O' course, we could understand the parson'is pride wouldn't let 'im; but a low, poaching, thieving rascal like Bob Pretty turning up 'is nose at ten pounds was more than we could make out.

The third may indeed have been an inscription on a pedestal of the scare-crow god set out to keep off thieving rooks and urchins in the poet's own garden: This place, my lads, I prosper, I guard the hovel, too, Thatched, as you see, by willows and reeds and grass that grew In all the marsh about it; hence me, mere stump of oak, Shaped by the farmer's hatchet, they now as god invoke.

Otherwise I love those thieving Arab servants in Cairo (who would steal the very shoes off your feet if you dropped off for your forty winks) because of their uncivilization and unconventionality.

"He in safety industriously plies His sweet honest work all the day, Then home with his earnings he flies; Nor in thieving his time wastes away." "O hush, nor with fables deceive," I replied; "which, though pretty, can ne'er Make me cease for that insect to grieve, Who in agony still does appear.

From morn till night he was ever prowling about, scolding and terrorizing those dirty, ill-behaved, and often lying and thieving women.

19 collocations for  thieves