Hermes (Roman Mercury) was the impersonation of commercial dealings, and of course was full of tricks and thievery,the Olympian man of business, industrious, inventive, untruthful, and dishonest.

Thus, in a way, Peter's surroundings began a subtle explanation of and apology for Cissie, the whole racial training of black folk in petty thievery.

How can one hope to rear an honest, self- respecting citizenry as long as the mothers of the race are compelled to resort to thievery to patch out an insufficient wage?" "Why, I don't suppose niggers ever will be honest," admitted the grocer, very frankly.

Any dramatic incident, such as the refusal of Noah's wife to enter the ark, or Mak's thievery in The Play of the Shepherds, might serve as an Interlude.

Stealing N. stealing &c v.; theft, thievery, latrociny^, direption^; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism^; latrocinium^. spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail. piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.

His diet is either fasting or poor fare, his clothing the hangman's wardrobe, his house the receptacle of thievery, and his music the clinking of his money.

He finds it easier to write in rhyme than prose, for the world being over-charged with romances, he finds his plots, passions, and repartees ready made to his hand, and if he can but turn them into rhyme the thievery is disguised, and they pass for his own wit and invention without question, like a stolen cloak made into a coat or dyed into another colour.

But it's dd thievery when engaged in by any one connected with putting a bill through.

editor of the London Magazine and the Elia lawsuit Temple finally left Thackeray and Lamb Thanksgiving Ode, by Wordsworth Thekla's song in "Wallenstein" Thelwall, John "Theses Quaedam Theologicae" Thievery in Australia Thurlow,

An account of the married life of these two is given by Haydn's friend Carpani, which incidentally brings up a bit of literary thievery of unusual quaintness.

This accomplished piece of thievery was thus performed:the sketch was drawn out upon the first hearing, and filled up from recollection at homeMozart then repaired to the second and last performance, with his manuscript in his hat, and corrected it.

Some of them, indeed, might have been spared; but as a graphic illustration of the petty thievery of Paris, the following extract bears great merit:] I do not think that amongst the readers of these Memoirs one will be found who, even by chance, has set foot at Guillotin's.

Thus one generation of malefactors is commonly cut off, and their successors are frighted into new expedients; the art of thievery is augmented with greater variety of fraud, and subtilized to higher degrees of dexterity, and more occult methods of conveyance.

And, W. Bosman, whose long residence on the coast, enabled him to speak with certainty, says,[B] "That the laws were severe against murder, thievery, and adultery."

There were edgy accounts of the rivalries of contentious nationalisms, delicious stories of grand thievery, fabulous stories of immoral profligacy, of debauched viceroys who equalled in pomp and splendour the Asian potentates they dealt with.

Nor can we at this distant day blame them very much or wax so indignant as did their master over their thieveries.

At a session of the Particular Court held in Hartford, August 21, 1646, Mary Johnson for thievery was sentenced to be presently whipped, and to be brought forth a month hence at Wethersfield, and there whipped.

"But I'm sick of this mess, this mismanagement, thievery, lyingone's tempted to think that anything would be better" "Don't you believe it," he said brusquely.

Some can never get beyond the dirt and smells and thievery.

Before the Adelantado could capture him, Roldan, followed by about seventy men, escaped to Xaragua in the western part of the island, where, as the Adelantado reported to his brother, they gave themselves over to violence, thievery, and massacre.