We will be looked upon asthieves and murderers, not honest men asking for our rights.
For no cause was ever won by thieves and robbers; we be honest men who seek what is ours by right.
He was more successful later, for in running through the streets he came upon a band of Tatars leading a man with a rope around his neck, whom Rob quickly recognized as one of the thieves he was hunting for.
So for the present I'll stand in with the scowling chief and try to get a shot at the thieves who robbed me.
She was over her hysterical passion now, and steadied down into a state of desperate determination to set out after the thieves and bring Nola back.
This expedition has come to the relief of certain men, attacked and surrounded in the discharge of their duty by a band of cattle thieves of which you are the acknowledged head," replied Major King.
Perhaps they were not of the type that Macdonald described; maybe the cattlemen were just in their arraignment of them for thieves and skulking rascals, and Macdonald was no better than the reputation that common report gave him.
There was but little light during the day; but when night arrived, only a solitary lantern shed its feeble rays, and the prowling thieves commenced their work of plunder upon their unfortunate fellow-captives.
The thought of thieves occurs to each in turn; one is certain that the area-door has been forced open; another is sure that the back-parlour sash has been raised.
Our Lord says about the earth that it is a place "Where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
I now found myself, at the age of sixteen, an inmate of the same dwelling with thieves and murderers.
The thieves of whom you spoke spoiled her pleasure in granting hospitality.
Thieves took by plot, and lords by loan; The king by tax, the poor by tone.
As thieves are not remarkably O'erstock'd with modesty, This fellow made quite free.
If these prisoners have betrayed our Lord the Admiral, let them die unheard, like thieves caught in the act and punished red-handed without form of trial.
Enclosed you have a list of horse-thieves and others who act very prejudicial to our cause.
Should the enemy move up the river in force, his thieves will be very busy below.
And one finds splendid variations in his stories of peasants and wrestlers and thieves and prostitutes: something at once epic and morbid.
Opportunity creates thieves and also begets beings of her sort, addicted to speculative transactions.
In point of fact, these fellows are worse than the acknowledged criminals, since they rob under the guise of honest men, and run little or no risk, while the actual thievestake their lives in their hands.
Our Lord says concerning the earth, that it is a place "where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
So your ladyship will perceive that Juon Tare's castle is provided with a very strong guardian against thieves and wild beasts--but who can guard it against the wily and the insinuating?
During this time thieves happening to pass by, and seeing the door open, entered and laid hold of whatever came to their hand.
Having thus cleared the house, the thieves departed quietly, but we remained on our seats, saying not a syllable.
A great many modern poets, with the most abstruse and delicate sensibilities, love darkness, when all is said and done, much for the same reason that thieves love it.
Among these stories there are a certain number which deal sympathetically with the adventures of robbers, outlaws and pirates, which present in a dignified and romantic light thieves and murderers like Dick Turpin and Claude Duval.
There is place of hiding and of lurking, for oft in woods thieves are hid, and oft in their awaits and deceits passing men come, and are spoiled and robbed, and oft slain.
All over the North-West, I suppose all over India, thieves abound.
A missionary friend of ours awoke one morning to find that during the night everything in his tent had disappeared on which thieves could lay their hand.
Thieves caught in the act were maimed and allowed to go their way.
This place had formerly been noted for the thieves and thugs that infested it.
We were generally told there were thieves in the neighbourhood; we were sometimes told they were numerous and daring.
Pop strode back to the desk while the two chicken thieves shouted raucous insults.
The two chicken thieves came to the front of theirs and clasped the bars with their hands.
As has been said, Bud Larkin had the legitimate owner's hatred of these thieves who preyed on the work of honest men, and had sworn to help run them out of the country as soon as his own business was finished.
How Smithy, a low Chicago tough, whose only knowledge of a horse had been gained by observation, could so quickly become a trusted member of this desperate gang of cattle-thieves he could not conceive.
It's got so in this State that the thieves have got more cows among 'em than the regular cowmen.
I shouldn't wonder if he'll take me, the rascal, to some den of thieves .
Ye-es, brother, thieves have always been cleverer than watchmen!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thieves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
