27 examples of burgled in sentences

A riskier but more profitable game than burgling an empty houseif it came off.

Later in the night the place is burgled by some one who has had his eye on it for some time, and on entering the library he is astounded to find the dead body of the owner.

Get rid of the servants, Hill, and we'll burgle his house.

To get Fred to burgle Sir Horace's house!

He sends for Hill, whom he had known in gaol, and whom he hadn't seen since, to confide in him that it is his intention to burgle his employer's house.

Why did he want Hill's assistance to burgle a practically unprotected house?

"And has it been your experience among criminals, Rolfe, that a burglar must have a plan of the place he intends to burgle, and that to get this plan he will give himself away to any man who can supply it?

So, to obviate this risk and prepare Hill, Birchill hit on the plan of telling him that he'd found the judge's dead body while burgling the place.

Hill had told them that he had tried to dissuade the prisoner from going to Riversbrook to burgle the premises, because his master had returned unexpectedly; Fanning had told them that the prisoner was in favour of postponing the crime, but that Hill had urged him to carry it out.

Kemp declared that the reason he had declined to have anything to do with the project to burgle Riversbrook was that he felt sure Hill would squeak if the police threatened him when they came to investigate the burglary.

He burgled your flat himself while one of his gang watched outside.

I expect by now that I have as good as told you the plotyoung brother caught burgling hero's flat; hero, intrigued by mention of sister, doffing his society trappings, following his captive to crook-land, bashing the wicked inhabitants with his heroic fists, and finally, of course, wedding the sister.

True, he burgles, but his manly willingness to reform in order to please the lady shows that his heart was always in the right place, wherever his fingers might be.

Then again the actual pillage occurs "off," as they say, and the gentlemanly burglar, while not "occupied in burgling," walks the stage a perfect Sir George Alexander of respectability.

"Head it, suspicious information: first prisoner, probably dangerous burglar burgling on Christmas eve; second prisoner, cattle thief; third prisoner" "But we aren't anything like that," broke in Rudolf hastily.

" "Burgling?" gasped the astonished soldier.

"I feel as if I'd been burgling all my life.

It was scarcely likely that Hollams would go to so much trouble and risk, attempting to drug, injuring, waylaying, and burgling the rooms of the unfortunate Leamy, for a jewel of small valuefor any jewel, in fact, but the ruby.

Have any of your neighbors been burgled during the night?

"Burgled your bedroom," he explained.

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

Permit me, therefore, to bless your house by the passage of my beautiful boots; that I may burgle the house next door.

Might as well my mansion burgle, As "row" me forcibly out of my money.

"E.T. There once was a lonesome, lorn spinster, And luck had for years been ag'inst her; When a man came to burgle She shrieked, with a gurgle, "Stop thief, while I call in a min'ster!" SPITE Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more aggraviting than if you spoke right out at once.

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