You recall the class of street-readers of whom Charles Lamb wrote"poor gentry, who, not having wherewithal to buy or hire a book, filch a little learning at the open stalls."

<Steal, abstract, pilfer, filch, purloin, peculate, swindle, plagiarize, poach>.

The King is said to have answered that he scorned to filch a victory, and that Alexander must conquer openly and fairly.

Well too if he like Love would filch our hoard With pleasure to ourselves, sluicing our vein And vigour to perpetuate the strain Of life by spilth of life within us stored!

Upon my life, The buzzard hath me in suspicion, But whatsoever chance, I'll filch a share.

There is a class of street-readers, whom I can never contemplate without affectionthe poor gentry, who, not having wherewithal to buy or hire a book, filch a little learning at the open stallsthe owner, with his hard eye, casting envious looks at them all the while, and thinking when they will have done.

He that made all the stars you daily read, And from them filch a knowledge how to feed, Hath hid this from you.

5, and verse 28, has the following passage: "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming; why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" It was, indeed, an early trick of his Lordship to filch good things.

These last are perfidious and treacherous people, who think all well got which they can filch or steal from those of other religions; and this wickedness of the Saracens has induced many of the Tartars to join their religion; and if a Saracen be killed by a Christian, even while engaged in the act of robbery, he is esteemed to have died a martyr.

It seemed to Peter now as if their young and uninstructed hands had destroyed a safety-vault to filch a penny.

[person who commits theft] thief &c 792. V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim^, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize. convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize &c (lay violent hands on)

Unjust and arbitrary fines are imposed by harsh employers so as to filch a portion of their scanty earnings; their time is wasted by unnecessary delay in the giving out of work, or its inspection when finished; the brutality and insolence of male overseers is a common incident in their career.

I have Decker's play by me, if you can filch anything out of it.

He did nothing but swill, stuff, surfeit, be sick, play at dice, cheat, filch, go to sleep, guzzle again, laugh, chatter, and tell a thousand lies.

And why may not the descendants of another kind of thieves glory equally in their origin at some distant day, and proudly trace themselves to a Soames and a Filch, and dwell with romantic glow, on their larcenous deeds?

Patience is no more; my companion manages to filch a raw onion and a crust of bread, which we share, and roll under our tongues as a sweet morsel, and it gives us strength for another hour.

Each person would filch away a part of me, and instead of being refreshed and restored to health and gladness, as you said, I should be utterly bewildered and distraught, in such wise that for many days to come I should not know in what world I was moving."

This thought is the only one which makes us know our proper selves, which holds us together in the bond of our own nature, which prevents us from being stolen away by kinsmen, friends, great men of genius, ambition, avarice, and those other sins and vices which filch the man from himself, keep him distraught and dispersed, without ever permitting him to return unto himself and reunite his scattered parts.

Fain would they filch that little food away, While unrestrain'd those happy gluttons prey.

They filch away the earnings of the laboring classes.

Henry I., king of France, being ill-disposed at bottom towards his Norman neighbors and their young duke, for all that he had acknowledged him, profited by this anarchy to filch from him certain portions of territory.

The tricks to filch purses from the gaily-dressed ladies who flaunt in the churches, who serve as models to our poets of the golden age to depict a lying world devoid of honour.

He knew where the boys were, he helped to keep them away from their mother, so as to filch from them their present, and above all, future inheritance.

The men who take have no more license, from God or man, to take, than have those from whom they filch.

The guerdon was mine, and I was determined this time that no traitor or ingrate should filch from me the reward of my labours.