Thieves

Examples

• It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Really, if anybody was to come--thieves or anything--I believe I should enjoy it, such is my spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The thieves--the house they took me to! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The English author is for hanging _all_ thieves. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Spies and thieves! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was two thieves with Our Lord. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They all had the politics of horse thieves. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• My good mistress, like the generous high-bred woman she was, refused to let us be treated like thieves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You would like, first, to see the place where the thieves made their attempt, I suppose? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Given from this den of thieves, about the hour of matins, Aymer Pr. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• To your brakes and caves, ye outlawed thieves! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You had better call us thieves, Sir; or perhaps You would like to assault one of _us_. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The question intruded itself: Which bore the blessed Saviour, and which the thieves? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nor catching any thieves, nor identifying any house-breakers? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There is honor among thieves, and a band of robbers has a common interest as respects its members. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Efforts were numerous, however, to render them safe against the entrance of thieves, but the ingenuity of the thieves advanced more rapidly than the ingenuity of safe-makers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is for me to ask you that, he shrieked, you thieves! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Gentle thieves they are, in short, and courteous robbers; but it is ever the luckiest to meet with them when they are at the worSt. How so, Wamba? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Away goes Spyers; on goes Chickweed; round turns the people; everybody roars out, Thieves! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Keep it quiet, and the thieves will grow in confidence by little and little, and we shall have 'em. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But I say Our Lord is the formal way of speaking of the man in question and that it was two thieves. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Editor: Rudolf