I felt insulted, and never after did I pilfer a wafer.
It is a city that enticed and still entices the mighty of the earth; Roman Emperors in the past came to appease the wrath of its gods, a German Emperor to-day comes to pilfer its temples.
Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and other pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering their goods to sale, rob houses, or pilfer any thing they can lay hold of.
Persons who contract to unload ships; also thieves who lurk about wharfs to pilfer goods from ships, lighters, &c.
Sticky hairs along the stems of this plant ruthlessly destroy, not flies, but ants chiefly, that would pilfer nectar without being able to render the flower any service.
Such small wingless insects as might pilfer nectar without bringing to their hostess any pollen from other blossoms are held as fast as on bird-lime.
Within each little fragrant pine-sap blossom a fringe of hairs, radiating from the style, forms a stockade against short-tongued insects that fain would pilfer from the bees.
Alas, for the tiny creatures that try to climb up the rosy tufts to pilfer nectar, they and their relatives are not so innocent as they appear!
Evidently the butterflies that pilfer this "ague-weed," and the bees that are its legitimate feasters, find something more delectable in its blue walls.
Unwelcome visitors like ants, which would pilfer nectar without rendering any useful service in return, are warded off by the bristly, hairy foliage.
Among the latter may be classed the bumblebees and butterflies whose long lips and tonguespilfer ad libitum.
For, as I told you before, as he learned of these three villains to be a beastly drunkard, so he learned of them to pilfer and steal from his master.
But yet as he grew up in strength and ripeness of wit, so he attempted topilfer and steal things still of more value than at first.
The same principle which prompted our Nootka friends to pilfer from us, it was natural to suppose, would produce a similar conduct in their intercourse with each other.
I said to one of the older merchants: 'It is easy to say that all the agents pilfer in this way, but what do you know about it?
All classes, from the highest to the lowest, were found to be thieves; and when the chiefs themselves did not steal they employed their servants to pilfer for them.
These earees did not scruple to pilfer whatever came in their way, and one of them, who pretended to be very friendly, was found handing articles which did not belong to him out of the quarter-galley.
All stores should be packed and securely lashed, that it may be impossible to pilfer from them.
If all theft be punished, your administration will be a reign of terror; for every savage, even your best friends, will pilferlittle things from you, whenever they have a good opportunity.
But it's odds they'll try to move in and pilfer our provisions as soon as the sea lets up.
At a corner is a miser, sitting at his table weighing his gold, his bag upon one side of the table and a thief behind him endeavoring to pilfer the bag.
Whether he is going to Virginia to steal tobacco, to North Carolina to pilfer pitch and tar, or to South Carolina to plunder rice and indigo, who can tell?
Persons who would not, for the world, be known to pilfer a single cent, are by no means particular with regard to detaining an umbrella or a book.
Nay, believe me, I yetpilfer a cuff-button or perhaps a jewel, when occasion offers, lest any of my talents rust.
For, (as I told you before) as he learned of these three Villains to be a Beastly Drunkard; so he learned of them to pilfer and steal from his Master.
Being an honest printer myself, I have little charity for those banditti of my profession who pilfer from every body they find on the road.
Will they drive you to barschin Or pilferyour hayfields?
