"Housebreaking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the maiden of sour visage and uncertain years was saluted as "Ole Miss Vinegar" by a whole division of infantry. But this was the limit of the soldier's resentment. At the same time, when in the midst of plenty he was not impeccable. For highway robbery and housebreaking he had no inclination, but he was by no means above petty larceny. Pigs and poultry, fruit, corn, vegetables and fence-rails, he looked ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... "Housebreaking is entirely out of my province," Tranter objected. "And the secret of that house, if there is one, is likely ...
— The Crooked House • Brandon Fleming
... April, 1800, in the 22nd year of her age, Suffered a just and ignominious death. For admitting her abandoned seducer in the dwelling-house of her mistress, on the 3rd of October, 1799, and becoming the instrument in his hands of the crime of robbery and housebreaking. These were her last words: "May my example ...
— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews |
