In the grip of these plunderers intrenched in the stronghold of finance each of these filchedmillions becomes a new weapon of oppression.
All heard and many treasured up those words, and hence the tradition always in men's mouths that the treasure of Trevlyn was filched by the gipsy folks in fulfilment of that curse.
A generation had well-nigh passed since that treasure had been filched from the grasp of the Trevlyns.
I would sooner have mine filched from me by freebooters than owe aught to Robert Catesby that could give him any claim upon me.
They were fined terrible sums; they had to give back sums equal to the spoil they had filched from others.
The Florentines were angry because Bandinello had filched the commission away from Michel Angelo.
During many months I have heard nothing to the contrary; only this morning I was informed that you have got hold of it, and have filched it from me.
But although we have so improvidently suffered the field of circulating medium to be filchedfrom us by private individuals, yet I think we may recover it in part, and even in the whole, if the States will co-operate with us.
Immense sums were thus filched from the poor and ignorant, and fortunes accumulated by those who had themselves been poor enough before.
I shouted triumphantly, handing it to Master Whitehead, and straightway I told them of my meeting with Increase Joyce, and how I secured the temporary possession of the filched document.
He looked fixedly at me for a moment, as if suspecting my thoughts, then from his pocket he produced the identical metal box that he hadfilched from my father's corse.
It was a penitent thief, who begged me to return you the articles he had filched from you.
The delicate web he had filched lay under his burning cheek and throbbing temples; its subtle perfume intoxicated him, evoking ecstatic glamour and vivid visions of Edna's face radiant with joy and beauty.
Idleness filched but few moments from him, and by a thorough system he managed to perform an amount of labor that would have been deemed prodigious in a close student.
Two young ragamuffins crawled among the legs of the crowd up to her basket andfilched pies and cake beneath her very nose.
But, by the irony of fate, the prosperity which his industry and tenacity deserved was filched from him little by little by the ill-health of his wife.
For the maddening thing was that the slip of filched territory was less than a hundred yards wide and men of the Lombobo, who went out by night to widen it, never came out alive--for Bosambo also had a guard.
He watched the departing army--paddlers sitting on swathes of filched spears.
What power would be filched from him by the shearing of his locks?
With equal address he filched the letter entrusted to Amleth from the coffer in which it was kept.
Amleth, meanwhile, who found that his shield had been filchedfrom under his head, deliberately shut his eyes and cunningly feigned sleep, hoping to regain by pretended what he had lost by real slumbers.
Arabella exulted in a reply which gave her a moment's triumph over the rival who had filched from her such a prize.
Yet the fellow used it, he obtained money on the strength of it, for beside the jewelry which he had filched from you, we found several hundred guilders upon his person.
Nicolaes was Stoutenburg's friend and ally, and his life and that of his friends were now in the hands of that rogue, who might betray them with the knowledge which he had filched from her.
The documents have been filched from their august chambers, and the shrine is desecrated.
Granted you filched twenty-five napoleons from a big Dutchman, you show as much remorse as though you had taken more than a million.
Visitors to Peking may often see the junkmen at T'ung-chow pouring water by the bucketful on to newly-arrived cargoes of Imperial rice in order to make up the right weight and conceal the amount they have filched on the way.
Lines 1-134 Neoptolemus having filched the Bow of Philoctetes, Philoctetes prays him to restore it.
Neoptolemus, having filched the bow of Philoctetes, Philoctetes prays him to restore it.
And livid lamps where vypers spoon, As some bad harlot shrieks and cries Her Nature's sins unto three skulls, A shameless gnome bathes in hell's flood The thighs hefilched from a gray tomb.
The next fragment has beenfilched by the author of Sanchoniathon, and we must not quote it.
He had dropped a grindstone on the head of his rival, but the smile that he smiled then was the same smile with which he suffered and forayed and fought and filched in the desert.
And to have the honour of it filched from him by a soldier of Manfaloot--no, Mahommed Seti should be crucified!
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