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Stealing

noun

The act of taking something from someone unlawfully. Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving.

Avoiding detection by moving carefully. Synonym: stealth.

Steal

verb

(past stole; past part. stolen; pres. part. stealing)

Take without the owner's consent. "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

Move stealthily. Synonym: slip.

Steal a base.

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"Stealing" Quotes from Famous Books

... rapidly and animatedly, and the others were listening and stealing glances now and then at one another. Once, while they watched, the Little Doctor looked at Chip and then turned her face toward the window. She was biting her lips in the way the Happy Family had learned to recognize as a great desire to laugh. It all looked suspicious and corroborative ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... stitch of the worn silk netting, was probably counting the coins in the purse, while making some light jests, quite innocent in appearance, but no doubt with the object of watching for a moment when the sum was worth stealing. ...

— The Purse • Honore de Balzac

... the dawn Comes stealing in pulseless tranquility on: More freely she breathes, in its balminess, though The forehead it kisses ...

— Beechenbrook - A Rhyme of the War • Margaret J. Preston

... When the hush'd grove has sung its parting lay; When pensive Twilight, in her dusky car, Comes slowly on to meet the evening-star; Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light. Stealing soft music on the ear of night. So oft the finer movements of the soul, That shun the sphere of Pleasure's gay controul, In the still shades of calm Seclusion rise, And breathe their sweet, seraphic harmonies! Once, and ...

— Poems • Samuel Rogers

... tremendously impressed by this sudden swoop of vengeance, and gazed open-mouthed at the master for the rest of the class, stealing only now and again a hasty glance at D'Arcy to see how he was bearing up against ...

— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed

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