185 Verbs to Use for the Word thiefs

"I suppose they'll catch the thieves in time.

" "Stop Thief.

" "Set a thief to catch a thief," reflected Steinmetz.

My friend in Vienna, a pearl merchant like myself, assisted Andrews in his endeavor to discover the thief and, being much impressed by the young man's personality, sent me this photograph, asking me to meet him, as I have told you, when he reached America.

I lost a hawk by him, and yet I car'd not to send another after him, so I could find the thief; and hereabout he is; I know he is squatted.

"It takes a thief to catch a thief," said Lebrun enigmatically, when he saw that he had the ear of the crowd, "and it takes a man to catch a man.

" Puzzled, she faltered: "I don't understand" "Surely you don't wish me to believe my pretty Sofia has turned thief?" That stung her pride.

Further it occurred to him:"Yes, he did; but I now only wish to kill three poisonous thieves."

To have permitted the man-thief to expiate his crime by restoring double, would have been making the repetition of crime its atonement.

He kept out of sight whenever possible and no longer screamed "Thief! thief!" through the Green Forest.

And we can understand why you should want to capture the thieves, Chief; because that's a part of your business.

And do you fancy that Christ is a less careful and just governor of the world than the magistrate who punishes the thief that honest men may live in safety?

The government might sell thieves, if they had no property, until their services had made good the injury, and paid the legal fine.

Slade himself happened to be there, and he at once organized a party to go out and hunt up the horse-thieves.

There it is, a bag of doubloons, sayall looking just alike, with the head of a king, a Don Somebody, and the date, and the Latin and Greeknow who can say that 'this is my doubloon; I lost it at such a timeit was taken from me by such a pirate, in such sea; and I was whipped till I told the thieves where I had hid the gold?'

Every few moments Captain Graham would ride up to see if the trail was freshening and how soon we should be likely to overtake the thieves.

The lamp had already struck the water before the servants could cry out, "Thief, thief!" and rush toward the azotea.

He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, "because of poverty we have sinned," Ecclus. xxvii.

Vengeance, I played the thief for the money that bought 'em.

"And after the thing had been successfully done, he could watch the two thieves gathering the swag together, and putting it in a satchel they found in the cashier's room.

At sight of any whip they run away, As runs a thief from noise of hue and cry.

But the sound of the jangling gold was conclusive; it must be due in some way to human agency; and in the circumstances human agency must mean a thief.

Frank's provided for that, and besides, we don't really expect to round the thieves up, just find out if they've dropped down anywhere inside of thirty miles to the north of Bloomsbury.

The town had suffered from graft, and the mayor, thinking a woman might scare the thieves as well as the bacteria, appointed the chemist who believed in herself.

" "But cannot a trap be laid to secure the thief before he approaches the people in Russia?" suggested the crafty Levantine.

185 Verbs to Use for the Word  thiefs