A first act of theft is punished by the loss of a finger, the second by the loss of an ear, and the third by death.
The superstitious Siamese made loud outcries at the scandal of the theftwhich brought into circulation all the gold and silver that the Burmese their conquerors had taken away.
A stickler for justice, he punished fraud and theft with severity.
Theft is not punished by death, but by the loss of a limb or of some part of the body.
The ancient cannon in the center of the class square was defended annually by the sophomores, and its theft was always attempted by the freshmen.
The theft of it would require first a free-for-all with the sophomores and after a definite victory a mob assault of the gun.
The theft of the cannon and its elevation to the roof of the hall entered the annals of Webster legend.
And this child-theft was to obtain the means of work after all.
Ever poor and hungry, theft seems to him, in the trifling easy manner in which he practises it, simply a necessity.
When Gipsies were hung and transported merely for being Gipsies, it is not unlikely that a persecution to death may have originated in even such a trifle as the allegedtheft of a dish-clout.
Atreus and Thyestes became enemies after thetheft of the Golden Lamb.
The theft of the Golden Lamb is treated as a story of the First Sin, after which all the world was changed and became the poor place that it now is.
One day shortly after the theft of the cup she received a telegram from Town informing her that her father was seriously ill, and that she was to come up at once if she wanted to see him alive.
But I sorrow not so much for the theft of the cup as for the awful sacrilege of which the thief has been guilty.
He committed a theft here and allowed me to lie under suspicion.
Looking for Grit," and then Dick told about the theftof his dog.
Dick, quietly, though he was much excited over what seemed to be the theft of his pet.
I accepted you as my lover, and you practised deceit and theft against me: is that my reward?
He could not doubt that a thefthad been committed, but if the concealed watchman had related the affair, people would have thought him mad, for even a child might know that a moth could not carry away a golden apple.
Footnote 54: This story is probably connected with the Finnish and Esthonian legends of the theft of the sun and moon by sorcerers.
Nothing has since been discovered respecting this theft or its bold restitution.
This theft reminds me of another which took place a little before the commencement of these memoirs.
Such a thing as theft of book or game is not known.
The situation was discussed from a practical standpoint in the McDuff household, and it ended with the Kid going up to Bridgeport and pleading guilty to theft to escape the worse charge of burglary.
The acceptance of any appointment would have seemed to him an aggravation of his falsehood, a theftfrom those who were more deserving than himself.
But you still rebelled against the idea of theft and murder.
But theft, cynical theft for the purpose of profit and enjoyment, is beyond me!
Deliberate theft of ideas from contemporary offerings is likely to result in law-suits, and I don't believe that there are left in the printed dramas any ideas worth stealing.
For a long time, when we were rehearsing, it seemed impossible to get this theft over the footlights.
Lady Rety, alarmed but still pleased; for she was happy to see the ease with which so ugly a thing as theft undoubtedly is could be brought to assume the more grateful names of motherly devotion and generosity of feeling.
Viola's last crime was his theft in the house of the notary of Tissaret, and the pursuit was neither instantaneous nor uninterrupted.
The tone of the meeting changed from that of serious-minded discussion of a theft and its treatment, to care-free chatter about an evening of fun.
Upon the final occurrence she had been detected and identified, but although she had admitted the theft to Miss Phillips when she was later accused, she made no attempt at apology or explanation.
A star on the Mount of Mercury shows theft and dishonour; on the Mount of Mars, death in battle; but a star on the plain of Mars, military glory.
A few hours earlier, when he had been dashing here, he was pursued by disgrace, by the theft he had committed, and that blood, that blood!
But if anything of the sort could have taken place, the charge of robbery falls to the ground; if there was no money, there was no theft of it.
The theft of the money and other things troubled him little, for he argued that the theft had not been committed for gain but to avert suspicion.
To accuse Mr. Peters of theftor to accuse him of being accessory to a theft was out of the question.
It all has to do with the theft of your scarab, Lord Emsworth.
It was obvious from what he had seen that night that Mr. Peters' connection with the attempt on the scarab was to be merely sympathetic, and that the actual theft was to be accomplished by Ashe.
He had been unable to prevent the theft of the scarab, but he might still detect the thief.
You can't go about the place charging a man with theft and ask him to go on being willing to have his son marry your daughter, can you?
The theft of the Flibberty-Gibbet was merely amusing, though the means by which the theft had been effected gave him hurt.
He opposed all attempts to reform the law which punished with death a theft of five shillings.
It's thetheft of the Key that has prompted me to speak, Deacon.
No one but the Colonel had approached within several yards of the safe at the time it was opened; so that clearly the theft had been committed prior to that time.
Had it not been for the theft she would have become a millionaire.
Mariette also favored Philippe Bridau and was the innocent cause of a theft committed by him in order to enable him to contend with Maufrigneuse.
The theft in question was committed at the home of Mlle.
It was there that she suffered the loss by theft of her valuable diamonds, through Charles Crochard, her real lover.
He ended by dreaming of acquiring the estate at Aigues; but the Comte de Montcornet purchased it, retained him in charge, caught him one day in a theft and discharged him summarily.
Pray take a seat, sir, and tell me which Mrs. Rook is guilty of--theft or murder?
He suspected it was stolen; he took care of his own cowardly self--and left me to the hard mercy of the law, if the theft was found out.
I shall have to tell the whole story to the commissioner of police, and he will want what I say confirmed, both as to the theft and the numbers of the missing securities.
I should reserve suspicion about Johnstone until the trial, but, of course, there they would have to accuse him of the original theft of the securities.
The thought of standing before the world accused of theft filled me with an overpowering fear, and rather than stay and face it I should have put an end to my existence.
In all this speech of Judas we may observe, that Josephus still supposed that death was the punishment of theft in Egypt, in the days of Joseph, though it never was so among the Jews, by the law of Moses.
All things considered, kidnaping and automobile theft were not a happy combination with which to appear before a criminal court.
