Nor was the thievery confined altogether to the professionals, who had crowded to this scene of action from the cities and islands of the Mediterranean.
The thievery in this little out-of-the way port was something marvellous; and the skill and ingenuity of the operators would have reflected credit upon the élite of their profession practising in the most civilized city of Europe.
More than once the Crimean thievery reduced us to woeful straits.
Poor Harry, and his cancerous predilection for the kind of thievery that almost invariably stacked up to not even petty larceny!
Only the utter triviality of histhievery and the fight in Mrs. Schum saved him from the law.
Because prisoners often died before trial and the poor prisoners became instructed in the practice of thievery in prison, they were set to work on materials provided to them at public expense.
Thievery is a serious offense (numákaw of a single theft).
His petty thievery caused him to be ordered to leave Juan's house, to be dismissed from Juan's house.
Not only was this crowd of crooks working a lottery, but they were also managing a stupendous thievery of automobiles, in which cars were looted by wholesale!
Here was the most carefully planned and thorough system of automobile thievery that Gramont had ever heard of.
He packs his pages with ill-spelt slang, telling his story of thievery in the true language of thieves.
Under auspices so brilliant, thievery could not but flourish, and when the Stuarts sat upon the throne it was already lifted above the level of questioning experiment.
There was no resource but thievery and embezzlement, sins which led sometimes to falsehood or incendiarism, and at a pinch to the graver enterprise of murder.
Now, it is bythievery that Peace reached magnificence.
The thievery is so open in Naples and surrounding places, that we dared not leave anything exposed in a carriage.
Hund was seen with the pirates, acting with and assisting them, when they committed various acts of thievery on the shores of the fiord.
If it be so tight closed that others have not entered, for thievery or shelter, how can we get in?
We have not at all advanced in thievery since Elizabeth's day.
You must not live upon cheating and thievery to prevent your ruin: and what can it be less to get another man's money against his will, if you hide your case, which if he knew he would not lend it you.
If you have no rational way to manifest the soundness of that hope to another, it is but to pretend faith and hope for thievery and deceit.
They became nomadic, roaming from place to place, seeking day work for good wages where they could get it, and resorting to thievery on the highways or beggary where they could not.
But if you can prove that you are really a master in your thievery I will let you go free.
Convinced of the impossibility of thieveryin any of its ordinary forms, he was bewildered as to the inexplicable means of his present predicament.
The thievery of his thoughts and the ravin of his envy would have provided interesting bases of speculation for the reflective magistrate, since, if, according to the metaphysician, thoughts are things, he committed crimes daily.
To her calm statement of Esther's thievery Anne paid a polite attention though no credence.
He saw how his background of wholesale thievery would serve him in the general eye.
Madame Beattie came to her alternative: if nobody paid her money to ensure her silence, she would go to Weedon Moore and give him the story of Esther's thievery and of Lydia's.
We--er--find it very difficult to control thievery in the city.
Lively it was; but its liveliness was not all thievery and violence.
Through the record of thievery up and down the river, that spring of 1884, the shadow of Jake Maunders slips in and out, making no noise and leaving no footprints.
Ang pagkakiriwan mauy nakatingkagul (nakapatingkagul) níya sa prisuhan, His thieverygot him thrown into prison.
Misípat ang panúlis kay krísis sa kwarta, Thievery is becoming rampant because of the scarcity of money.
We tell you--and we don't want you to forget this--that all the trust impositions and suffering and thievery now agitating us constitute a teething process through which we must pass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thievery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
