58 Verbs to Use for the Word theft

" "You are satisfied that one or all of its members committed the theft last night?

Who knows how Duchemin discovered the theft before the ladies of the château did?" "Do you know what you make me think?

However large the theft, the payment of double wiped out the score.

The kyack was quite in the shadow now, yet she dared not attempt its theft until the three men were asleep.

Carpani exposed the theft, but a little later the imperturbable Beyle published a second edition of his work under the name De Stendhal.

B. I am glad to hear you acknowledge the thefts of the modern poets from the antient ones, whose works I suppose have been reckoned lawful plunder in all ages.

His accounts of Mangi and Kathay, or southern and northern China, are most inaccurately stolen from Marco Polo, and disguised or rather disfigured to conceal the theft.

I wish female curiosity had been strong enough to have had it all transcribed; which might easily have been done; and I should think the theft, being pro bono publico, might have been forgiven.

He's gone in heat to publish out the theft, Which want and your unkindness forc'd us to: If now I die, that death and public shame Is a corsive to your soul, blot to your name.

These poor fellows do not regard theft in the same light that we do; besides, it would be foolish to risk losing their friendship.

Draco's laws were extraordinarily severe, punishing small thefts and even laziness with death.

The overseer still charged him with it, and told him he would give him one week to think of it, and if he did not confess the theft, or find out who did steal the pig, he would flog every negro on the plantation; before the week was up it was ascertained that Joe had killed the pig.

Trading with slaves was restricted for fear of encouraging theft.

"I will hear what you have to say on the subject, Mary, but I am sure I shall still think it right to report that theft to-morrow.

He tried to fasten a theft on my brother this morning, and then caps the climax by instigating Mortlake to try to steal the ideas of our aeroplane.

To a dog of gentlemanly feeling theft and falsehood are disgraceful vices.

It was his wife first found out the theft, for she had seen her unborn son in a dream, and he was beautiful; so when she saw the sickly and ugly baby, she knew that he was not hers, and that the Fairies had stolen the child of her dream.

"And now, Señor," Mr. Grimm continued, "if you will kindly state the circumstances immediately preceding and following the theft?" A slight frown which had been growing upon the smooth brow of the diplomatist was instantly dissipated.

Finally, after some time had passed away, though I had by no means forgotten the theft, and still suffered much every time it was thought of, I ventured to call and see him.

In the next passage, however, the humourist gets the better of the plagiarist, and we are ready to forgive the theft for the happily comic turn which he gives to it.

And we intreat you to examine, whether the purchasing of a Negro, either born here or imported, doth not contribute to a further importation, and, consequently, to the upholding of all the evils above mentioned, and to the promoting of man-stealing, the only theft which by the Mosaic law was punished with death;'He that stealeth a man, and selleth him; or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.'

Finally she went on: "When next I met you it was in the Venezuelan legation; you were investigating the theft of the fifty thousand dollars in gold from the safe.

Food she could steal and did, blithely enough, since she had no monitor but the lure of brightness and that Thing within her breast that hotly justified the theft and only urged her on.

But the false accusation leaked out as well as the theft.

Now, if a majority has a right to rule, in this arbitrary manner, it has a right to set its dogmas above the commandments, and to legalize theft, murder, adultery, and all the other sins denounced in the twentieth chapter of Exodus.

58 Verbs to Use for the Word  theft