When I opened up all I found was Eggy Edgworth, small-time burglar, sneak-thief, and copper's nark of this parish who didn't look much like Destiny. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Bundy he said, you only sell shoes, your son is a sneak-thief, your daughters 'a flooze. ❋ Unknown (1993)
So what was left but the common hazard of travel, the sneak-thief and killer loose in the wild places, ready to pull a man from his horse and bludgeon his head to pulp for the clothes he wore, let alone a splendid horse and a handful of jewellery? ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
When wiring a window the usual idea is to assume that the sneak-thief who breaks and enters is a slave to habit who pushes up the lower sash and crawls in under, apart from which the average electrician finds it much kinder on the shoulder muscles to wire at waist level instead of above the head. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
But for these institutions the wanton and the sneak-thief and the confidence man and woman would find their opportunities seriously curtailed. ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)
Retaining what belongs to another, simply because it has come into our hands by mistake, is as much a theft in its spirit as purposed stealing; and the fine lady who keeps the change to which she is not entitled, or the yard of ribbon measured to her in error, is just as criminal, as the sneak-thief who gets into her hall through a neglected door and steals her husband's overcoat. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
I thought it was a sneak-thief, or a burglar, for you know they often rob houses by going up in dumb waiters. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
I felt a full-fledged sneak-thief, but I thought of ❋ John A. Hill (N/A)
"A fine chase you've given me to-night; and playing the part of sneak-thief in the bargain; but then, of course, you believe what I told you, now, Hugh, since you've seen that the watch was in my locker?" ❋ Donald Ferguson (N/A)
MRS. BRAMSON: Leave her alone, the little sneak-thief? ❋ Emlyn Williams (1946)
Florence, naturally, did not believe Cliff, and in a mounting scene called him a sneak-thief and accused him of depravity and ingratitude. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1945)
I admit the cat is your cat, and that I have no right to it, and that I am just a common sneak-thief. ❋ Unknown (1928)
With considerable haste the clerk took down the key, protesting, I never said you looked like a sneak-thief. ❋ Unknown (1922)
With considerable haste the clerk took down the key, protesting, ` ` I never said you looked like a sneak-thief. ❋ Unknown (1922)
He seats her deftly on a camp stool by the drummer, pats her shoulder, sends a friendly gutter-rat with the face of a sneak-thief for water, and turns to the crowd. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)
The sly sneak-thief, with his pleasant smile and his winnin 'ways! ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)
"Of course," I said, slowly, "I cannot, in my rather peculiar position, run the risk of being charged with plagiarism -- by a Chinese-eyed mental sneak-thief ...." ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
And it was, -- a raffish, handsome, slender, red-haired fellow, somewhat suggestive of the royal duke, yet rather more like a sneak-thief, and with a whiff somewhere of the dancing-master. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"Out with you, you sneak-thief; I am not afraid of you," Karl cried again. ❋ Joseph O'Brien (1915)
