I can hardly think it possible that we have a thief in the house.

Thieves of my knightly honor!

There is a man always to be seen there at grub time, a cockish-looking fellow, somewhat, with a horse-shoe pin in his scarf, and he is as thick as thieves with the butchers.

The thief on the cross was a sinner, yet Christ took him to Paradise.

The rooms he took were above a secondhand clothing shop kept by a drunken female named Leaver; a supposed widow who lived at the back of the shop with her two children, Lizzie, a bold-eyed girl of 17, who worked at a Clerkenwell clothing factory, and Joe, a typical Cockney boy of fourteen, who sold papers in the streets during the day and was fast qualifying for a thief at night when Crewe went to the place to live.

We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep, and farm and all, from the right owner.

"She got in touch with a flash gang of railway thieves from America," said Inspector Chippenfield, helping himself to a cigar from Crewe's proffered case.

Why, he was that anxious to let the police know he had seen an aeroplane steering away straight into the southwest early this morning, that as soon as he warped his boat to the wharf, Todd, like a public-spirited citizen, hiked away for Headquarters as fast as he could run, hardly waiting long enough to understand about the bank being robbed, and Percy's biplane being used by the thieves as a means of making a quick get-away.

He afterwards rose from the low level of a horse thief to the high dignity of a justice of the peace, and I think still lives at Kickapoo.

And Mungo Park says of the Mandingoes, among the inland Africans, that, while they seem to be thieves by nature," one of the first lessons in which the Mandingo women instruct their children is the practice of truth."

" "Nay, thou naughty varlet," quoth the Sheriff, turning his head and looking right grimly upon Will Stutely, "thou shalt have no sword but shall die a mean death, as beseemeth a vile thief like thee.

The people were found to be rather lighter complexioned, and certainly not so addicted to thieving as the Otaheitans.

There was a thief over yonder that possessed a confidence with her.

We had no more trouble for some time from horse-thieves after that.

Those who do not move in are watchers to protect their property, for there are thieves among the Navajos.

"Yes; but your friend can't see the thief behind you, and when he sees you standing there, not offering to help him, he thinks you are a coward and a traitor.

Then, as to his not thieving from me or mine, I believe the fact to be as he has stated; but there are singular circumstances connected with some of his other productions, of which the account is at least curious.

"We, who are thieves without a licence, are at open war with another set of men who are thieves according to law.

For while they may be kept safe from the thief within the gates, yet if they are exposed to the weather they will be lost nevertheless.

The aggrieved party had complained to some of the other children, who said that it was thieving for one child to take any thing from another child, without his consent.

BABA, ALI, the character in the "Arabian Nights" who discovers and enters the den of the Forty Thieves by the magic password "SESAMË" (q. v.), a word which he accidentally overheard.

There's also an association forming that will insure these costly animals, and chase a thief across the continent until they eventually get him; just as the bankers' association does.

She saw again the coarse striped clothes, the cropped hair, the hands and feet shackled in irons, the hideous faces of women murderers and thieves around her.

after Jean, who, mastered once more by his natural timidity, was flying like a thief down the corridors.

It is to be remembered, that the poets, as well as the vulgar, use some forms which a gentleman would be likely to avoid, unless he meant to quote or imitate; as, "So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.