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.

Not content with refuse, he pecks open meal sacks, filches whole potatoes, is a gormand for bacon, drills holes in packing cases, and is daunted by nothing short of tin.

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.

He hath so little of his own that the house he sleeps in is stolen: all the necessities of life he filches but one; he cannot steal a sound sleep for his troubled conscience.

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.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

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.

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.

Except in two or three instances, where he filches a reference from the citations made by the latter historian, he brings forward no statement contained in any of these books, either to support his own positions or to refute theirs.

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.

That thou art chosen, venerable Clause, Our King and Soveraign; Monarch o'th'Maunders, Thus we throw up our Nab-cheats, first for joy, And then our filches; last, we clap our fambles, Three subject signs, we do it without envy:

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