"Theft" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... point so very closely, and went with so much minuteness into every little incident, that it set the unfortunate manager perspiring, and, indeed, after a while, made him begin to wonder whether he himself were a party to the theft which he had suffered, or a party to assisting the fugitives. The important official, if he did not actually accuse the manager of having aided the prisoners supposed to have purloined the articles of clothing, inferred it certainly, glared at the unhappy man, browbeat him in regular Germanic manner, ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton
... of hope, of Heaven bereft; It is the destiny of man To cower beneath his Maker's ban, And hide from his own theft! ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... "There would be no theft. Your sister flings me to you as a dog drops the bone he has picked dry. She had me when I was young, and a soldier—with some reflected glory about me from the hero I followed—and rich and happy. She leaves me old and haggard, without ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... instances related of personal indignity and violence. They returned with their spoils to camp, after a week devoted by them in the Northern Neck, among our unhappy people, to the highly civilized, brave, and chivalrous exploits of theft, robbery, and almost every species of felony committed upon a defenseless, unarmed, and helpless population—chiefly consisting of women and children! It was an easy achievement—a proud conquest—the more glorious to the noble and heroic Yankee, because stained with crime and won without danger ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... are by their serious example an authority to support these principles, how abominably absurd is the idea of being hereafter governed by a set of men who have been guilty of forgery, perjury, treachery, theft and every species of villany which the lowest wretches on earth could practise or invent. What greater public curse can befall any country than to be under such authority, and what greater blessing than to be delivered therefrom. ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
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