At which she smiled, and bade him go And take his bag; but thus much know, When next he came a-pilfering so, He should from her full lips derive Honey enough to fill his hive.
There has been a great deal of pilfering in the camp the two last days, which has been the case with every great camp near Delhi, and our people were unluckily more awake than usual.
It is considered quite a shocking thing to have a robbery in India--pilfering is commendable and rather a source of vanity, but a robbery of an European is a sort of high treason in all native states, and the town pays for that loss.
The Pi-utes are 'not warlike, rather cowardly, but pilfering and treacherous.
Well versed in this science, no man will be cursed with a scolding wife, a pilfering servant, or an imbecile teacher for the offspring of his connubial felicity.
Obviously he had been acting a part, with a visible contempt for the pilfering that he could not prevent.
The freebooters of Rio Medio had returned to their cautious and petty pilfering in boats, from such unlucky ships as the chance of the weather had delivered into their hands.
Especially are the flower-stalks rough, partly to discourage pilfering crawlers.
To be killed by slow torture and dangled like a scarecrow simply for pilfering a drop of nectar is surely an execution of justice medieval in its severity.
By roughening its angled stem and leaves, it discourages pilfering ants and other crawlers from reaching the sweets reserved for legitimate benefactors.
The lavender fringe and the hairy involucre and stem serve the end of discouraging crawling insects, which cannot transfer pollen from plant to plant, from pilfering sweets that cannot be properly paid for.
The slender flower tube is sticky outside to protect it from pilfering ants, and the hairs at the base of the stamens serve to hide the nectar from unbidden guests.
Pilfering ants find death as speedy on the sticky surfaces here as on any catchfly.
Even the ant, intent on pilferingsweets secreted for bees, it ruthlessly glues to death against its sticky stems and calices.
This blossom hangs its head, partly to protect its precious nectar from rain, and partly to make pilfering well nigh impossible to the unwelcome crawling insect that may have braved the forbidding hairy stems.
The truth of the matter is, I was not so innately bad as my persistent running away and occasional pilferingseemed to imply.
To the school life and the ensuing eight months' sojourn In Hoboland credit is also due for the disappearance of my pilfering inclination.
It may also confirm him in his pilfering habits," I interposed.
Lying and pilfering mark his early days; followed in after life by swearing, cheating, drunkenness, hypocrisy, infidelity and atheism.
I am afraid that there is much of this kind of pilferingamong servants in these bad days of ours.
Still this useful scavengering habit is nearly allied to the pilfering one.
With regard to their pilfering habits, such plants are usually proportioned off into two great groups.
They roam about at will, are very destitute, and obtain a living principally by pilfering from the whites, although a few of them are engaged in a small way in farming.
The pilferingis usually confined to petty articles; and it would really seem as if they reasoned with themselves upon the matter, judging that what they take will please and benefit them more than the loss will pain or injure you.
Then perhaps you may be of opinion that the pilfering is a mere proclivity of their vanity or their small appetites.
Having no property themselves, not even in themselves, may not their pilfering be a just retribution upon those who are depriving them of all?
How far the accounts of the disorders in the military organisation and the rumours about pilfering in high quarters were true, we need not inquire.
The Marches gracious soueraigne, shalbe sufficient To guard your England from the pilfering borderers.
I had added a cane verandah or piazza to mine, and protected it from the pilfering natives, by a high palisade, that effectually excluded all intruders.
I will rid the world of a pilfering pest, for I will kill you this very night.
He knew then that he was being robbed nightly, and that a thief was pilfering his traps.
The facilities for petty pilfering afforded to the shopkeeper’s errand-boy are such as favour momentary evil impulses.
You've been pilfering from Peggy for years--pilfering right and left with both hands!
What must be the mass of wealth, where the fragments gleaned by lawless pilfering rise to so large an amount?
A few more lines, as bad as those which we have quoted, bring us to one of the most amusing instances of literary pilfering which we remember.
Pilfering is so common, that you cannot leave your room without locking your door.
The lesson which Manuel taught Daley proved of great service to Paul, who gave Daley the jail-ration which it was impossible for him to eat, and was saved from his pilfering propensities.
