Do we say steal or steel

steal 2260 occurrences

Now you cannot get tea before that hour, and then sit gaping, music bothered perhaps, till half-past twelve brings up the tray; and what you steal of convivial enjoyment after, is heavily paid for in the disquiet of to-morrow's head.

The duke, after upbraiding Valentine for his ingratitude in thus returning the favour he had shewn him, by endeavouring to steal away his daughter, banished him from the court and city of Milan for ever; and Valentine was forced to depart that night, without even seeing Silvia.

Thou hadst better watch thy warrant, man, or else he may steal it out of thy very pouch.

Then is the time, For those whom wisdom and whom nature charm, To steal themselves from the degenerate crowd, And soar above this little scene of things, To tread low-thoughted Vice beneath their feet, To soothe the throbbing passions into peace, And woo lone Quiet in her silent walks.

To steal a hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.

The opposition when you begin to analyse it means not that the step is faulty or that it is not likely to succeed, but it is due to the belief that the whole country will not respond to it and that the Moderates will steal into the councils.

I venture to submit that it is adding insult to injury to bring the Prince and through his visit to steal honours and further prestige for a Government that deserves to be dismissed with disgrace.

"The point urged against him with such earnestnessI may say vehemenceis, not that he took the slaves merely, but that he took them with design to steal.

" "In other words, of seeing admirers, major Bob," said Maud, laughing, and bending forward to steal a glance in her brother's face.

Sometimes those who watched, fancied they beheld a smoke beginning to steal up over the brow of the rocks, the precursor of the expected conflagration; but a few moments dispersed the apprehension and the fancied smoke together.

" A sudden pallor overspread the features of Fra Antonio, who staggered and would have fallen, as he made an effort to steal away unobserved, had not the others come to his assistance.

Do they steal away at closing time into the depths of the Museum and hide themselves until morning in sarcophagi or mummy cases?

We do not eat these little Crabs, but other Crabs do, and so do anemones, gulls, and other hungry creatures; and they themselves hunt sand-hoppers, and eat anything they can find or steal.

If he meets with another Hermit there is a battle, one trying to steal the other's shell.

If they can't get hold of that paper by strategy, they are going to try and steal it.

You can see for yourself what a risk we run, when only last night an attempt was very nearly successfully made to steal these papers," "I hear what you say," Virginia answered.

We entrusted him with the care of them in health, but we are not prepared to let them stay here now that he is lying upstairs dangerously ill, and one attempt to steal them has already been made.

"Fortunate for him that he doesn't," he answered, "for, frankly, if I knew where to find it, I should certainly steal that document that Mr. Weiss came and worried you about.

To windlace seems then to mean 'to steal along to leeward;' would it be absurd to suggest that, so-doing, the hunter laces the wind?

'A man cutting off his hands for fear he should steal,' ii. 435; 'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,' iv.

'A man cutting off his hands for fear he should steal,' ii. 435; 'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,' iv.

I say not that I saw it, because I was never accustomed to lounge at our college gate; but the men that were most frequently there, insist that they have many times beheld the gay widow steal forth in the dusk of the evening, dressed as for a party, and have tracked her to the house of a haberdasher in the vicinity!

I would have you know, De Bourbon storms, and does not steal his honours

Extempore written during the time some medical pupils were considering how they should remove the heart of a young woman deceased, whom the friends allowed them to open, on condition that they took no part away: St. Thomas's pupils, I cannot help grieving, To think it should ever be said, That we, who so oft steal girls' hearts whilst they're living, Should steal them as well when they're dead.

Extempore written during the time some medical pupils were considering how they should remove the heart of a young woman deceased, whom the friends allowed them to open, on condition that they took no part away: St. Thomas's pupils, I cannot help grieving, To think it should ever be said, That we, who so oft steal girls' hearts whilst they're living, Should steal them as well when they're dead.

steel 4108 occurrences

It had averaged eight miles an hour on its climb toward Yellowhead Pass and the end of steel.

His eyes were gray, smiling steel.

The few harmless police we have following the steel have been unable to touch them.

She caught his arm, and one of her hands seized the cold steel of the pistol.

As it was, several inches of water stood between, a more effective armour than a two-inch steel plate on a battleship.

More by chance than skill the blow fell absolutely true, and the steel, either flawed or over-tempered, snapped.

Instead of answering, Roy took hold of Ken's arm with a grip that was like that of a steel vice.

Between them towed a thin steel hawser set to a depth just sufficient to catch the mooring cables of the mines which were plentifully strewn in the channel.

That's the sort with steel whiskers on them.

Within an incredibly short time he was flat on a mattress laid on the throbbing steel floor of the submarine.

'Any one can have this steel box for me,' retorted Roy.

Men sprang up the steel ladder leading to the conning tower.

As for Ken, tired out with his exertions, he lay upon the throbbing steel floor, wrapped in a blanket, and slept as peacefully as he had ever slept in his life.

A few minutes later, an order was passed for Carrington to go up, and Ken darted up the steel ladder like a lamplighter.

One whom I will specially ask is Captain Carrington.' Ken's breath came quickly as he watched his father step across out of the boat on to the steel deck of G2, but like the trained soldier that he was, he did not move.

' Ken thanked him gratefully, and they both went forward, and there, leaning against the gray steel of the little turret, with the small waves lapping over the turtle-back forward, Ken told his father how their strange meeting had come about.

Inside of three minutes all was ready, the warp was cast off, and the steel hatch in the conning tower dropped with a clang.

So even in her greatest grief and indignation, she had to pause before the three-legged black stool, and gather up steel after steel of her circumference in her hands behind, until her calico skirt careened and flattened; and so she could manage to accommodate herself to the limited space of her punishment, the circles drooping far over her feet as she stood there, looking like the costumed stick of a baby's rattle.

So even in her greatest grief and indignation, she had to pause before the three-legged black stool, and gather up steel after steel of her circumference in her hands behind, until her calico skirt careened and flattened; and so she could manage to accommodate herself to the limited space of her punishment, the circles drooping far over her feet as she stood there, looking like the costumed stick of a baby's rattle.

But whatever is to be said of the cause, the work which we did in it, with steel and gold, was so able and strenuous that an Englishman can still be proud of it.

"The Japanese excel in working in copper, iron, and steel."Ib., p. 419.

You could depend on her for every duty; she was as true as steel.

B798418. H. L. Davis (A); 3Jan56; R162743. Steel gang.

O'CONNOR, HARVEY. Steel dictator.

" Saint-Castin and his companion heard the clicks of flint and steel; then an instant's blaze of tinder made cracks visible over their Heads.

Do we say   steal   or  steel