A blind monster he seemed, searching with troubled arms among the islands for his bed, swept onward by an inexorable force, and on his heaving shoulders he carried great trees pilfered from the unknown forests of the North.
I picked up one of the shoes that we had pilfered from Thorneycroft's room, and turned it over in my hands.
As we proceeded to load our horses at ten o'clock, in order to continue our journey, we perceived that several small articles of no great value had been pilfered from us by our visitors.
Twice, at least, previously some one had pilfered jewellery from stores, leaving in its place worthless imitations.
O'Connor, mindful of the historic fate of the Mexican Madonna and the stolen statue of the Egyptian goddess Neith, had instituted a thorough search with the result that at least part of the pilfered jewels had been located.
And you have had nothing, for he has pilfered you of life, giving only dreams in exchange, my poor Antoine, and he has led you at the last to infamy.
Would life be sweeter if one found a way to restore to Cecelia Brooke her precious document and to smuggle back to Mrs. Arden her pilfered diamonds?
Of a sudden the pilfered necklace secreted in an inner pocket of his waistcoat, above his heart, seemed to have gained the weight of so much lead.
Books he borrowed as of old from the rooms of guests or else pilfered from quai-side stalls and later sold to dealers in more distant quarters of the city.
Thus by their refractory conduct they daily obtained a gulden or more; their boys pilfered where they could, and were notorious poachers.
The princes had their militia here and there, who now and then pilfered in the neighbouring Papal states, and stirred up the hornets there.
These were her infant spoils, a store; And she, in time, still pilfered more!
And they paced on quietly, as though their consciences were clean--as though no just retribution dogged their steps--as though no shadow of a terrible vengeance loomed in the heaven of their pilfered happiness!
BOSH, remarks Punch, after speaking of it as belonging to the stock of words pilfered from the Turks, “is one whose innate force and beauty the slangographer is reluctantly compelled to admit.
The rest of the feast, the pears, the nuts, the shrimps, and the radishes, had been pilfered from different parts of the market.
As they passed the shops they now extended their hands and pilfered a prune, a few cherries, or a bit of cod.
Tournachon, better known as Nadar, the aeronaut and photographer, rushed into print to proclaim that the realistic novelist had simply pilfered his ideas from an account of the Halles which he (Tournachon) had but lately written.
In this invisible way, these ingenious people could cook stolen poultry, at the very moment, and in the very place, that a search was going on for the pilfered article.
When any eatables had beenpilfered at my quarters, the fault was always laid first upon Kees; and rarely was the accusation unfounded.
While there is a chance of nectar being pilfered from the flowers by ants, the stem is cottony and ensnares their feet.
Safer and more profitable than dealing with the stolen-goods purchasers of the second-hand shop was the plan followed by Dolores la Escandalosa, who sold the ribbons and the lace that she pilfered to itinerant hawkers who paid very well.
Doña Violante, whenever she pilfered a few céntimos from her daughter would dispatch Manuel to the store for a package of cigarettes, and give him a cigar for the errand.
Sir Richard was more than contented, for he knew then that the way led to Castle Yewe and Lord Douglas, into whose hands he intended soon to deliver the duplicate of the parchment that had been pilfered from out of his wallet.
An I make no mistake, my fine fellow, I shall gain the missive you havepilfered before the day is done.
Several articles had been stolen, which was nothing uncommon among our worthy neighbours, for even the wife of Mato-Topé had pilfered something in our room.
All of them asked for presents, {444} and they would certainly have pilfered many things if we had not kept close watch over them.
The sums spent by his Government on maritime expeditions were not greater than those pilfered and wasted during the reign of Charles II.
The king had not the money required to pay the expenses of his Government, and what he had was pilfered on all hands by servants of all ranks and both sexes.
We stopped here for a quarter of an hour; where we were surrounded by many of the inhabitants; and on remounting my camel, I found that several trifling articles had been pilfered from my baggage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilfered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
