theft

"I'm a likely one to hide thefts! Why if I wanted to deal in them, opportunities came ready enough to me in my government."

This would have made the theft much more difficult than Mynheer Isaac had at first expected.

A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge.

He was excellent above all men in theft and perjury.

"And I answer," retorted the impenetrable lawyer, "that the suspicion of theft rests on your Ladyship's adopted daughter, and on nobody else."

For gif adultery, sacrilege, oppression, barbarous cruelty, and theft heaped upon theft, deserve hell, the great King of Carrick can no more escape hell for ever, than the imprudent Abbot escaped the fire for a season as follows.

His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Philoctetes from Lemnos and his cure, the coming to the war of Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with Diomedes, of the Palladium: the analysis concludes with the admission of the wooden horse into Troy by the Trojans.

Or is there a pleasure in being accessory to a theft when we cannot commit it ourselves?

The theft of the Flibberty-Gibbet was merely amusing, though the means by which the theft had been effected gave him hurt.

The theft raid which he had made upon the village turned out better than he had ventured to hope.

"Breaking into the principal" was, in the minds of most thrifty New England women, a sin only second to arson, theft, or murder; and, though the rule was occasionally carried too far for common sense,--as in this case, where two elderly women of sixty might reasonably have drawn something from their little hoard in time of special need,--it doubtless wrought more of good than evil in the community.

We see the thief preaching against theft, and the adulterer against adultery.