Copies can be multiplied with such amazing facility that, once thethief gets a decent start, it is almost hopeless to checkmate him.
Robberies on the person are of frequent occurrence at such times, even in the most crowded streets, the security with which the thief attacks a single individual rendering his audacity almost incredible.
But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thiefwould come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.
And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.
A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy.
If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.
But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.
As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night.
If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour's goods, 22:9.
Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.
Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where nothief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.
Thou dost not know all, I have not told thee; but hear now that my son, my son David, was crucified as a thief at the right hand of the Nazarene.
He was stolen by a thief who bred him to his own damnable trade, and who also was crucified.
There was in Paris a thief of such incredible dexterity that he robbed without an accomplice.
This was the baker's son, Soren, who never allowed himself to be seen; he moved about from choice like a thief in the night.
And he knew who was a thief and who a bankrupt speculator, and that Merchant Lau only did business with the little shopkeepers, because his daughter had gone to the bad.
Looks like the thief wanted to find something or other, and must have been frightened off by hearing us coming," Owen declared, also a bit angrily.
I think there was only a single thief here," he presently said.
So if it's gone, the thief took a notion he could make good use of it.
Somebody tell me what that big thief wanted with me last night, when he grabbed my leg, and started to haul me out of the tent?
And if we heard a yell, and crawled out to see the thief hanging there, all the credit would be yours.
To write a letter to a minister calling him a thief and a crook would not be libelous because there would be no publication.
But as all slept, a figure in the dress of a habitant moved through the passages of the house stealthily, yet with an assurance unusual in the thief or housebreaker.
Do you think she would go back to a thief she never love from the man she love?
Besides, the thief who had the courage and intelligence and daring to carry out a robbery like this was not the man to leave an express train traveling at a speed of upwards of sixty miles an hour.
The thief probably lost his temper, and perhaps Mr. Skidmore irritated him.
There was one thing obvious--the bullion boxes must have been thrown off the train at some spot arranged between the active thief and his confederates.
This was to recover the gold and incidentally also to take up the thief who stole it.
Maclean consigned the thief to perdition, and with some trouble bit off a plug.
The class of thief that banks have to fear is not guilty of such clumsiness.
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The first Indian horse-thief known in this part of the country was a neophyte of the mission of Santa Clara, George, who flourished about twenty years ago.
Besides, when we left this morning I shot the bolt home, so that no thief could have entered by that door; and certainly no one left the room that way, or the bolt would not be in the socket as it is.
It happened that at the time the thief was lying on his stomach, so that Tubby perched on his back, which might have been broken had the fellow been less sturdily built.
If Rob considered it best that they let the contemptible sneak thief off, after catching him in the very act as it were, well, it must be all right.
This was intended to convey the intelligence that he was eager to lay hold on the lower extremities of the sneak thief cowering under the bed, and start to drag him out from his place of concealment.
In this case it looks like the thief had had his troubles for nothing.
They must combine to make a sudden assault on the concealed thief and try to overpower him before he could place himself in a condition to do them harm.
It gave them one of the greatest surprises in all their experience; for how a common hotel sneak thief should know who they were, and address them so familiarly, was past their comprehension.
Both Hiram and Andy growled occasionally because the thief in his haste to look through everything had jumbled things considerably.
Then you're of the opinion it's just an ordinary everyday hotel sneak thief who's been looking through our stuff in hopes of finding some spare money hidden away in one of our grips, is that it, Rob?
Hiram, bitterly; "here's my bag turned inside out, just like some sneak thief had been looking for money or jewelry.
Say, I wonder now, if that was what the thief wanted?
I thought it was my business to find out this morning, for as we knew him to be a thief it hardly seemed fair to keep quiet, and not put a flea in the ear of the management here.
If the good man of the house had known at what hour the thief would have come, he would have watched; but he would have been a wiser man if he had watched all the more, because he did not know at what hour the thief would come.
Again, if the thief confessed where and how he had obtained the draft, he (Hall) was bound to come prominently into view.
I thought I had seen you before--you are the gentleman who called at the office several times about some missing documents, supposed to have been stolen by an old thief named Golden.
Blount in a professional way asked who was the thief and the amount of the draft.
The thief was well known to him as a friend of Jaggers, and the amount of the draft twelve thousand pounds.
She saw the shadow detach itself again, but it was impossible to determine its size or sex, although she inferred from its hard laboured breathing that the potential thief was a man.
She had missed a photograph of herself while dusting the parlour and had forgiven the loyal thief as it was a remarkably pretty picture and portrayed a woman sweet, fashionable, and lofty.
Ay; Atli heard me and came to see whether perchance a thief had come in to carry away his two Norsemen.
It is as if he should catch a thief who had stolen half his goods, and then throw dice with him for the rest.
In the same country where the complainant is put in prison, the thief remains at liberty, if he can find bail.
The thief and the murderer had a much more comfortable time of it in prison than the poor debtor.
Glad you have met with some thief cleverer than yourself, who has stolen your booty, I suppose, and left you penniless--a beggar as I found you!
Was the thief on the cross who repented a less welcome guest at that supper he was invited to because of his evil deeds?
He may have looked respectable, but he was a thief all the same.
There's a thief in the village--a guest at the hotel--whom I recognize as one of the most expert burglars in the country.
It enters through the door we have left open, just as a thief enters our dwellings, invited through our neglect to make the fastenings sure.
She has no friend from whom she can borrow enough money to redeem the clothing, and if it is not taken home she may be arrested as a thief and sent to prison.
Is he less a thief and a robber because he is our son-in-law?
He was getting pretty full of whisky, when I saw a thief in the crowd.
Then Barlow turned to me and said, "You keep the race track, and you are as big a thief as that other fellow.
