"You get a fellow all worked up to catch a burglar, and then you produce a dog.

Should my surmises be correct, I might reasonably expect, should my house be broken into, to find an unconscious burglar in the library when I went down in the morning.

Another tale evolved from Peggy's fertile imagination was that Joe, being about to starve to death in the city, had turned burglar and been shot in the arm in an attempt at housebreaking.

Lord Shaftesbury brought before Parliament a scheme for assisting young thieves to emigrate; and the grown-up burglars and vagabonds, seeing how much in earnest he was, invited him to a meeting.

I never saw a burglar.

What is more likely than that Sir Horace heard the burglar in the house, crept upon him, and then tried to capture him?

However, I hear that they've engaged a professional burglar, so we ought to get some amusement out of it.

Uncle Tom, in addition to not liking burglars, is a bloke who has always objected to the idea of being cooked in his sleep, so when he bought the place he saw to it that the fire bell should be something that might give you heart failure, but which you couldn't possibly mistake for the drowsy chirping of a sparrow in the ivy.

I think I had no definitely-formed intentions but acted more or less automatically, impelled by the desire to identify the burglar.

He joined some burglars, and they robbed the house.

The ancient coat and hat which had hung in the hall so long had perhaps served its purpose in keeping the burglars away, but this lifeless substitute had not prevented the crabbed gnomes of loneliness and discontent from stealing in.

Your health, GIUSEPPE; and for PUNCHINELLO Construct to orderthere's a jolly fellow A mitrailleuse, both long enough and large To kill the burglars, all, at one discharge.

Presently they called me, and, leaving the burglars in charge of the vigilant David, I went to them.

The idea of employing palpably dishonest servants to act as decoy ducks to lure the burglars on to the premises was an excellent one and had fully answered my expectations.

The Doctor lost his hat, chased it a few rods, and then gave it up, lest he should miss his burglars.

Of course, I'm not sayin' that if I needed a burglar he's just the man I should choose, but for this job he's the only reliable burglar.

the baby's as well were in danger and she determined to outwit the burglars.

"No," replied the burglar, "I never did.

We now proceeded to search the insensible burglars for arms.

But the passengers understood, and they all shouted 'Burglars!' and that girl in the stateroom gave a shriek that you could have heard from one end of the train to the other, and hammered on the door, and wanted to be let out.

I confess I have great difficulty in understanding why such an accomplished flash burglar as Birchill, one of the best men at the game in London at the present time, should want the assistance of an amateur like Hill in such a simple job.

His only objection to keeping it as a pet was a fear that it would never become really fond of children, although it might in time prove a good house-guard with which to ward off burglars.

A few nights ago Mr. Michael Dixon wasby a burglar in his bedroom.

" "Did youse git anyt'ing?" whispered the burglar on guard as his pal emerged from the window.

At last it was agreed that this unheroic trio should wait in the yard as a reserve, while Riley, the Doctor, and I went in to worry the burglars.