He said that it was singular that the Courts would hold that a man never lost his right to his property that has been stolen from him, but that he instantly lost his right to himself if he was stolen.
It was at this time that Lincoln was havingstolen conferences with Miss Todd.
He had stolen conferences with their leaders, inducing them to believe that it was policy for him to conceal his present real intention; that he would soon unmask himself and fight their battles.
For the lead had been stolen away, every trace, And Christian hog-product supplied its place.
She seemed to feel none of the dejection which had stolen away from him the whole flavour of life.
Here were ample means to fill his life,--means by which he could crush out that sweet but unhappy tangle of memories which somehow or other had stolen the flavour out of life for the last few weeks.
For the night seemed to have stolen his fears as fit companions for its shadows, and left him nothing but his hopes.
And he only stopped once to listen to a flute-player who had stolen into the forest back of the lodge and was trying to tell some young squaw how much he loved her and how lonely he was without her.
You've stolen this woman away from kith and kin, and the least you can do is to carry her back where you found her and turn her loose.
Do you know, I have a feeling that you are going to be instrumental in finding the stolen goods.
I doubted, should we meet, if I could pass, without slaying him, the man who had stolen my betrothed from me.
I suspect Lady Frances Arlington of having stolen his heart.
She implored Pluto and his stolen bride that they would not hasten to take the old man's life.
You wish me to solve the mystery of this stolen money.
If the jewels were stolen the crime was bound to be one of the most celebrated in legal annals.
I sighed, for I began to realise it was going to be very difficult for me, in spite of my disclaimer, to tell this man's friend he had stolen the money.
He could easily have stolen much more than the hundred pounds if he had wished to do so, but I have never known him to take a penny that did not belong to him.
Very well, the natural inference is that someone has stolen bars of silver.
I became certain no thief had made his way through the window, and finally I arrived at the conclusion that the notes were stolen by one of the guests.
It had been stolen from them once in simple wantonness by two young men who had nothing to do with the post office robberies.
All I have to say to that is not to say anything, as Teddy Geoghan observed whin they found a stolen pig in the bag he was carrying over his shoulder which the same he insisted was filled with clothes for Widow Mulligan.
It was certainly a singular coincidence that the launch should be twice stolen in so brief a time, and the owner grimly asked himself whether fate had not ordained that he was to lose it after all.
Their comrade had stolen off and was already in a "shindy" at the rear of the store.
They still believe in dreams and fortune-telling, and an old woman that lives in Bull-and-Mouth Street makes a tolerable subsistence by detecting stolen goods and promising the girls good husbands.
The coffin of Edward the Confessor has been broken open, and his remains despoiled of their funereal ornaments; the sceptre has been stolen from the hand of the imperious Elizabeth; and the effigy of Henry the Fifth lies headless.
I have been very good a very long time: I have not used any bad words, nor have I gnawed any holes, nor have I stolen any canary seed, nor have I worried my mother by running behind the flour-barrel where that horrid trap is set.
Many a time while the others made merry here I have stolenaway by myself to the brookside and danced alone in the moonlight,--alone with my shadow.
I had counted them again and again; I had stolen across their gentle faces and brought them pleasant dreams of green pastures and of cool water-brooks.
And here this ignorant people handled the guns, stolen but yesterday, as though accustomed to them all their lifetime, and their shells had already set fire to villages in many different places.
The like another, found in a bag of beans of a hundred pound weight, stolen from him, and recovered by the sound of this bell.
Moreover, the king hath a Bell,[237] the strokes whereof sound such terror into the heart of the fearful thief that none dare keep any stolen goods after the sound of that bell.
It is thus quite likely that a thief, under these circumstances, should be frightened into restoring stolen property.
The statement was stolen from him for the Winkelried conspirators by these men we now have locked up in this house.
It was stolen from under my very nose only a month ago!
That packet was stolen by intention, and not by chance, John Armitage!
He could not play upon that stolen glance or tease her curiosity in respect to it.
Then, again, about the only thing we're to fear from the stolen submarine is the torpedo work.
She was stolen from the harbor of Lota by a handful of Japs.
He says we're thieves, and that we have stolen this submarine boat.
If he can't recover the submarine from the thieves, his firm may hold him responsible for the loss of the stolen boat.
And to this day there be those in Venice who believe that if those holy ashes were stolen away, the ancient city would vanish like a dream, and its foundations be buried forever in the unremembering sea.
The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect.
Some cattle have been stolen a week or so ago and every man suspects his neighbour of the crime.
If the animals have really been stolenfrom the village they will surely be able to return to their homes by themselves.
The Cambodians and the Cham assert that these talismans formerly belonged to their kings and were stolen from them by treachery.
Most of the letters were stolen and knocked away; and had not the fire from the north ceased, the pedestal itself would have disappeared likewise.
On reaching the street we found the people returning to the town--that is, the Tartars were flocking back from the villages where they had been hiding, with bundles of property, much of which they had probably stolen from the Russian houses.
And they took from them the gold which they had stolen afore-time from UNCLE SAM, even the bills upon the Hebrews did they yield up.
On opening his knapsack, to the utter astonishment and regret of the whole regiment, the stolen property was discovered.
Two days before he died, it was discovered that a Bengallee servant of low caste, who had taken offence on some trivial occasion, had placed the stolen goods in the sepoy's bundle, and then urged the owner to accuse him of the theft.
A sepoy of the Bengal native infantry was accused by one of his comrades of having stolen a rupee and a pair of trousers.
In the memory of those still living, they have stolen of the bedouin and robbed him of land and wealth.
As you've probably heard, the Arab Union has stolen a march on us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stolen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
