Many a time, on an autumn evening, the boy had watched the fog start away up the lake and come stealing down, until the islands and the town and the forest were covered as with a blanket.
There has been so much of that sort of stealing up there lately that stern measures had to be taken, and I was acting for the company.
Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent; it still contracts to a smaller number, till in time it centres in a single person.
Many advantages not generally known arise from this method of stealing on the publick.
When he controlled himself to speak in English he cried: "I'll have you arrested forstealing my nets.
Was he bent only upon stealing the boat or was he only one of many who would be down upon them any minute?
There was yet time to lock it behind bolts and bars to prevent its stealing forth over the fatal threshold.
He had too often valued his life cheaply, to now think seriously of stealing into Poland to end his wretched career in safety.
And so," Harkavy continued, "after I am stealing the wine they took me to the police office.
The shoe pinches on the other foot, Kleiman, when you just stop to consider you are stealing away from us that feller Harkavy, which all he knows we taught him.
For stealing that wine I could get five years yet; so what should I do?
They probably would not pick a sober man's pocket, or knock him down at night and take his watch and money, for the risk of detection would be too great; but they are kept from downright stealing by no excess of virtue.
Seeing this, Manabozho assumed his natural shape, and stealing upon them with his bow and arrows, slew the chiefs of the spirits.
In one place he saw a war-party stealing on the camp of their enemies.
It has, therefore, often occurred to me, that if bloodhounds were kept for the general good in different districts, sheep-stealing would be less frequent than it is at present.
A dog who had been in the habit of stealing from a kitchen, which had two doors opening into it, would never do so if one of them was shut, as he was afraid of being caught.
Basto always rested near his trust, and sometimes apparently asleep; which induced many idle people, who, seeing a bag in the road without an owner, to attempt stealing the same.
Her fate was not, therefore, a happy one; and the reader need not marvel if she now and then found reflections of a disagreeable nature stealing into her soul.
But one day I met the old woman who kept the dress-house, and she gave me in charge for stealing wearing apparel--the clothes I had on my back when I ran away from her!
He once more approached the window to ascertain if there were any chance of stealing across the landing-place unseen.
The documents that prove his stealingare stolen by Gherst.
But it is hard that we cannot be happy save by stealing from the happiness of others.
Allow me to point out, my dear Mrs. Chalmers, that you are not merely stealing from your father.
The story quoted above from Matthew as to the bribing of Roman soldiers by the priests to circulate the falsehood about the stealing of Christ's body by His disciples is not alluded to by Mark, Luke, or John.
Solomon began by stealing the throne from his brother, the true heir.
The signals from the island, the indignation of Barton over the presence of the Boy Scouts, and the stealing of the plans and models, all stood out plainly now as being part of an elaborate plot of which Berghoff was the mainspring.
Apparently, so far as Rob could gather, the stealing of the plans of the submarine was not yet complete.
Then you believe someone has been stealing pheasants from Mr. Silverton?
If you want proof that someone has been stealing pheasants, look at this!
So you admit you worked with them in stealing my pheasants?
From Mr. Silverton, the Cubs learned that both Freeze and Bauer had pleaded guilty to stealing pheasants and were to be sentenced on a larceny charge within a few days.
When I found 'em here, they were stealing the pheasants.
I've suspected for a long while that someone was stealing some of my best pheasants, Dobbs.
Do you think those men, whoever they are, may be stealing pheasants and maybe shipping them out of here?
For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse.
It was two days after the young aviator had told his friends at Columbus the name of the person he suspected of stealing the aero-hydroplane, the Drifter from the Interstate Aeroplane Company.
He had never heard of any one stealing an airship before.
Mr. King and Hiram indulged in all kinds of conjectures as to the possible motive of the party of three in stealing the aircraft.
His conviction is that Mr Harry is a treacherous foe who has got into intimacy with him for the purpose of stealing his papers and spying upon his conduct.
Lilian’s cheeks glowed with shame under this insult, and she took the first opportunity of stealing away to weep all alone by moonlight.
I published, I should wish you to state that they were on my authority; otherwise I shall be accused of stealing from you.
Mary felt a strange faintness stealing over her, and the young man noticed it.
The Prentice speaks his Disrespect by an extended Finger, and the Porter by stealing out his Tongue.
I detested so hideous a Shape, and turned my Eyes upon Saturn, who was stealing away behind him with a Scythe in one Hand, and an Hour-glass in t'other unobserved.
The stealing of such an one should, in my Opinion, be as punishable as a Rape.
But great was our Triumph in one of the Blood who was beheaded for High-Treason; which nevertheless was not a little allayed by another of our Ancestors, who was hanged for stealing Sheep.
Then Annie, stealing to the window and lifting the curtain a little at the side, gazed sideways up the row, reporting to Phemie everything that happened.
Ay," replied the other woman stealing along the wall to the doorway of the older woman, and slipping inside as if she were afraid of being detected.
The room was left in darkness, only the first rays of morning stealing in through the closed shutters flickered strangely here and there, and fell over the old pastor’s silvery hair, making his pale serious face look still more grave and pale.
I saw again the dimly lighted chamber, the first rays of dawn stealing through upon the silvery hair and motionless form of the old pastor, and playing over all the inanimate objects, that seemed to take no part in what was going on.
Your conduct and answers have been straightforward, and I am unable to believe that you had any hand in the stealing or handling of that accursed envelope.
His hand moved softly over the rough surface, as though searching for the latch string, which was generally hanging out; and, finding it not, he began stealingto the window just beyond.
His eyes had become so accustomed to the gloom that he could trace the outlines of the eaves around the cabin, and he felt little fear, therefore, of his enemies stealing upon him unawares.
