These thieving operations must be stopped, cost what it may; but it seems to me this is a bad place to commence the work; it looks too much like secret murder.
I mean, sir, that I will allow no base, thievingmiscreant to enter my house; nor will I permit a daughter of mine to hold intercourse with such villains!
I have lived on the island for nearly six months--dad used to keep me here while he was doing his thieving in South Chicago, so I wouldn't be able to tell what I know and give him away, I guess.
This is no place for you--with such a thieving gang!
Have these rummaging and thieving Tories been out maraudering in the night?
They have been thieving and burning as far as Waggamaw, and are now on the road home by the upper ferry.
Fool, to have left his treasure unguarded for every thieving wench to take!
A garland for my gift shall be Of flowers ne'er suck'd by th' thieving bee; And all most sweet; yet all less sweet than he.
Such let my life assure me, when my breath Goes thieving from me, I am safe in death; Which is the height of comfort: when I fall, I rise triumphant in my funeral.
Welcome, lad, and all the more that I feared 't was another call the thieving Whigs were about to pay my cribs and barn.
We heard tales of how ye robbed and plundered about York, unbeknownst to the general, and I've no doubt ye are thieving now without his knowledge.
Pierre Qu'appelle's thieving kind we have in the community, the better for all of us.
Haven't you heard the news of the other thievingin town?
Phil went over to him directly, led him to a table in the corner, and told him in a few, quick sentences of the thieving visit that had been made to his room at Mrs. Clunie's.
He's a good old scout, and this thieving is gradually sucking him white.
The voluminous and cheerful judge disposed of a case of petty thieving in quick time, then called the case against James Langford for cruelty to animals and destruction of property.
Guess that ends the wholesale thieving that has been going on around Vernock these last five years.
At first it was generally reported that the invaders were Wahehe, or the Wadirigo, as that tribe are scornfully called from their thieving propensities.
Notes conquered their thieving propensities, differences were patched up, discord and jangling ceased, and the whole community, as a sign of real repentance, took upon itself the vow of silence.
Go like the east wind's howling, Ride with death behind, Stay not for food or slumber, Till the thieving wolves ye find!
When the Anaconda plucky Flopped its tail in old Kentucky; When up stream the gunboats paddled, And the thieving Floyd skedaddled, Then the chief of all the asses Heard the word: Go, take Manassas!
Cornwallis had detach'd him A-thieving for to go, And catch the Carolina men, Or bring the rebels low.
In 1608 appeared The Bellman of London, which is a sort of unconventional cyclopedia of thievingand vagabondage, containing much curious information about the shady side of Elizabethan life.
A Cataian came to signify a sharper because the people of Cataia (China) were famous for their thieving propensities.
Some of the boys cannot overcome their thieving propensities, but will, even in the Refuge, purloin things that can be of no earthly use to them, if they get the chance.
Women even carry their thieving into the churches.
The most disreputable characters are to be seen in the audience, but no thieving or violence ever occurs within the hall.
They were driven into or near the towns at night, and corralled and guarded to keep them from being stolen by the thieving Navajoes.
We found the trail of a small band who had come near the valley, and then turned back on account of a light fall of snow, which would make their trail too easily discovered for thieving operations.
My investigations into this thieving case have shown me that she is perfectly innocent.
Well, Mr. Ware, I found out about thethieving gang, and then learned for the first time the kind of man I had married.
Even the thieving and nomadic tribes have as their godlings deified bandits.
Down at one end of the pond a brood of young black ducks were learning their daily lessons in hiding; at the other end a noisy kingfisher, an honest blue heron, and a thieving mink shared the pools and watched each other as rival fishermen.
He came at dusk, shamefaced, and I read him a lecture on fair play and the difference between a thieving mink and an honest partridge.
The little chipmunk, who knows his thieving and his devices, always makes one turn, at least, in the tunnel to his den too small for Meeko to follow.
There was the horse-thieving still unexplained; he had not even denied it to her.
The annoyances to which we had been subjected during our route upwards, from the thieving system of warfare pursued by the Affghans, seemed now at an end.
He doesn't come of a thieving breed, nor has he thieving gifts.
If thieving be an Art (and who denies that its more subtle and delicate branches deserve to be ranked as one of the Fine Arts?
The fact of their occasional existence merely proves that the sole object of all women engaged in the nefarious game of panel thieving is robbery--first, last and all the time.
They go into the thieving business to make it pay, and are not tempted by the display of merely pretty things.
Before leaving home on a thieving excursion to the stores the female shop-lifter carefully and systematically prepares her clothing, and sees that it is in proper form and ready for business.
Then do you intend to go thieving and robbing again?
A fellow needn't begin thieving if he is to be frightened at punishment; he would never make a living at it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thieving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
