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单词 thief
例句 thief
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
They talk about how I wrestled the gun from the thief after chasing him down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
When the manager was called, she calmly explained that she wasn't stealing, she was simply pretending to be a thief. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“I’ll tell him thieves came in and took it while he was out a- hunting!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Kreacher apologizes for the delay in bringing the thief, Master,” croaked the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
“Five. Heavens above! You're really very young for a bunch of thieves.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
“That boy looked like he was more than a friend. You had your heads together like two thieves.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
Lima had two rescuees with him, so he couldn’t pursue the thieves at the time, but he made a mental note. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“It’s that there are a lot of thieves here. And I don’t earn much.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“You know, the night the thief broke into my bedroom during the exact same time you were with us in the living room.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
She couldn’t see the thief from here, but she sensed he was waiting. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
‘But always I have let my horn cry at setting forth, and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
“The Devil has indeed been here,” cried the priest, “and he has tempted our miller into theft! But let us deal with this thief mercifully, for which of us could withstand the Devil?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You were the thief on the winter solstice,” he said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
I try my crossover, butDad steals the ball like a thief in the night, camps out at the top for a minute. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z
We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
The man he shot in self-defense was a murderer and thief. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
“Maybe your thief already had a buyer lined up.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Trying to figure out what to do with the thief’s letter had been the final straw. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
I only wished to claim the treasure as my very own in those days, and to be rid of the name of thief that was put on me. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
I wasn’t worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, and a thief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
He has told me again and again that most of being a killer and a thief is waiting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
"Jhogo told me. Some of the traders have eunuchs with them, huge men who strangle thieves with wisps of silk. That way no blood is shed and the gods are not angered." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
The thief, Mr. Kendall, knew that we’d been out there, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
That the thief is not a proper man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sat, wrapped up with a handsome thief, an orphan boy and a newborn baby between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
“So this is the home of the book thief?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
“Cattle thieves is a better name. We had reports that they were riding this morning, and we’ve been looking for them all day. You’re a Loyalist, I take it?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You can recapture the harvests the thieves have taken. You can be remembered by the Han people for your dutifulness.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some even forgave him or her in the interest of truth, feeling that the thief had a very important mission that would have pleased Vermeer himself. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Had that been what the thieves were looking for? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
I don't have a book bag or anything, so I pass between the thief detectors and head for the exits at a slow trot. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thieves had come to the house on Dart, and, not expecting to find anyone there, had killed her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“If I say I’m a jewel thief, will you treat me with more courtesy?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
“I caught a thief! Stealing from the pig’s trough!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
I thought of the shuttle bus driver who figured I was a thief but who was going to stop on his own time and give me a ride home. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
She thought of the thief’s phrase, I congratulate you all on your pursuit of the truth. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Though it’s not exactly a reward when you’re born with freedom and a thief sneaks into your home at night and steals it from you. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
On the night of the twenty-third, a thief or thieves had broken a pane out of his dining-room window. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Two goblins stood before the inner doors, which were made of silver and which carried the poem warning of dire retribution to potential thieves. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Miss Hilly called and told him I was a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
I swung the backpack around, trying to dislodge the thief, but Gum Baby held on with grim determination. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Mama Oji shrugged and then told her that all the neighbors were accomplished thieves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“We will eat meat that we can buy or beg, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
The thieves shoot Uncle Marco three times in the chest and once in the leg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
One would house a thief, a person in possession of an object worth millions of dollars. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
As the two thieves descended the fire escape, I called down to them, “If you want to find honest work, go to Hull House on Halsted Street. They’ll be able to help you.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Because there is a practicality to viciousness: the thief, the liar, the murderer even, has faster rules than virtue ever has; why not madness too? Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some thief organization begins to pay us to hide things in our shoe-shine boxes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And I won’t have you disgrace the library, too. He’s the golden godson, not some thief in the stacks. He’ll return them when he’s done with them. Now be off with you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
This was when the thief was doing his thieving. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
And then we went to a refugee camp in Italy where I became a great thief, until we got asylum in Oklahoma, where we try to act normal—raised-eyebrow face like you don’t believe it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
It had just mentioned a boy, a boy without a name who served a band of thieves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
“You are a little thief—I know you are. You are not even grateful we took you in. Stupid little thief!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had gone to bed knowing my uncle was a thief who would steal from his nieces. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
“But how did she come to be in a cave in the woods with a lot of poachers and common thieves? It doesn’t make sense.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
You’d have to be a thief of the worst class to steal one slice of bread and no one would ever believe him, not even Aunt Aggie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Thinking fast, he ran diagonally, catching up with the thief at the foot of the stairs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
“I smell a thief!” he says in a grave voice. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
This time Frightful scanned the sky for thieves before flying with it to the rooftop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
If those prints belonged to the thief, could he still be up there? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
He’d been willing, even eager to risk capture and execution as a thief and hired gun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Helene goes for hers like a jewel thief for rubies, holding the bracers to the light, exclaiming at how Blackcliff s diamond symbol is seamlessly hammered into the shield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“Yes. A thief if you like. Hardly just a thief, though. The world’s first cross-species thief.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
During the day, Shin followed teams of teenage thieves to the outskirts of the city, looking for isolated houses with telltale mounds of dirt in their gardens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
I neglected my business, spent more money than I earned, wrote bad checks, and in the end became a thief. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He sounds like a proper thief to me,” Officer Kelly said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
Death had not improved Thackeray Porringer’s temper, and now he was shouting, “I know you’re here somewhere! Come out and take your punishment, you, you thief!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
And he had dropped the photograph of the thief, and it would surely be easy now for Voldemort to find out who he was....Voldemort had all the information now.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
How easy it would have been for Bill, the old horse thief, to mount one and disappear. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Anyway, the point is I wasn't a thief. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
He named thieves and quoted statistics, working hard to relate what he knew of the far past and the near past to the present. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, who can guess at the motives of thieves?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Sam Meeker, cattle thief, was to be shot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Can you see that I don’t think our father was a thief? I don’t believe he was a liar.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sure enough, there was the little thief, flailing in the water a short distance away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
"You are a thief," the voice said in disdain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
Do I really want to spend the rest of my life eating salt beef and porridge with murderers and thieves? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Father shoved and the thief went face down on the porch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
I watch the thief turn the dead person’s pockets inside out and abandon the body, slipping into one of the nearby buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
The thieves’ footsteps thudded on the oak floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
His story always ended as a stowaway at the trainyard and began as a thief in the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
“There may have been waiting thieves or a guard who saw me as I bore you away. Concern for your life overrode my caution. I am sorry.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The thief must have been upset to discover that he had filched not a purse but a book full of scribbles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
“You wouldn’t speak with us. You treated us like beggars and thieves.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
“But don't get robbed on your way home now. All those tourists out there with their cameras and bulging wallets attract thieves like flies.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
They frown on sentences like Both of the thieves spent all of the money, and would prefer Both the thieves spent all the money. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If there’s a chicken thief in the area, I think we should hear about it,” he said. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
A wolverine, she thought; but there was not a footstep to tell which way the thief had gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a fleeting second he thought it might be a thief, but then he discounted that, because robbers in a place like this were as unlikely as wild animals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The city filled with beggars, and then with thieves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he’ll keep to any deal you strike with him.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Its big, bulbous head had a very pointed orange-yellow beak and the red eyes behind the black mask made it look like a thief who had had a very long night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
Look at the bike thief nerding out with all his stupid books! We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
The tall thief lifted Grandfather’s sword from the mantle. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ever since, she’s ranted about thieves, double- and triple-checking to make sure our doors are locked, worrying that someone will steal the truck, clutching her purse against her chest in crowded markets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Of what I might do to this trembling, cornered thief in front of me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z
But now, as I peer inside my apartment, there’s no thieves. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
He had told Alba that he worked as a jewelry thief and that the dreadful bag contained his picklocks and brass knuckles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yes, thieves and pickpockets were very skilful; one needed to exercise the utmost care. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
There had been two thieves farther ahead who were planning to steal the boy’s sheep and murder him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was too dark now to go out looking for the horse thief, and anyway, they had no idea when he had done his thieving or which way he had gone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
The shattered remains of the thief removed by hovercraft. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
They think I’m a thief and a firebug. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
This little thief seemed to produce it like Granddad did sweat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
If he hadn’t believed in the significance of recurrent dreams, he would not have met the Gypsy woman, the king, the thief, or . The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“This thief is way more ruthless than we thought.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
The soldiers have the right to punish thieves any way they see fit, killing them if they choose. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
This might seem like an ideal situation for a young thief to take advantage of, but really the opposite was true. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
His presence reverberated through the cramped rooms and crooked hallways as every thug, thief, dealer, con man, and steerer came a little more awake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“And the New York Times gets a Pulitzer Prize for stealing documents....They’re trying to get at us with thieves. What in the name of God have we come to?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Mama Bellini was convinced that the man was a kidnapper—or rather, cricketnapper—not just a thief. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
She craned her neck over the side of Hanuman’s hand, as if she could catch sight of a runaway thief. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
I thought thieves were worthless, too lazy to work for what they wanted. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If a mestizo is running, he’s an athlete. If a longo is running, he’s a thief.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I bet she writes about us—the spies and thieves in the woods,” Georgie said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
More and more small valuables and family keepsakes belonging to the mice and their woodland guests vanished into the thief’s sack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
“You are telling us to leave a thief? If we leave him today, tomorrow ten of them will come.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
He put on their shoes and then stood and walked back up the road but he couldnt see the thief. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
‘Myself—I don’t know so well. But I’m not that kind of a thief.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
There is no spiritual symbiosis; I'm just a petty thief who lifts his memories the same way I’ll take a handful of change left on his dresser. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
The sound of crunching leaves and labored breathing filled the warm autumn air, and Celaena kept her gaze on the damp and gleaming dark hair of the thief in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
He was trying to walk so quietly that Dustfinger wouldn’t hear him, and when Dustfinger turned he stopped like a thief caught in the act. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Great public thieves came along and picked the pockets of everyone who had a pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
And Number Two and a Half, if Miss Hilly told Miss Celia how I got back at her for telling those lies that I’m a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
When the job’s done, he smacks me on the shoulder and we run off like handsome thieves. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
Once we knew who the thieves were, we let Mouschi sleep in the attic and never saw our uninvited guests again...at least not at night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
He could not believe it safe to mention the theft of gold and the name of the thief in the presence of any goldsmith. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We spoke about your thieves’ lamp not more than two days ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
"It wouldn't have happened if he wasn't a thief," said the Warden. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
‘What are you doing here?’ the boy demanded, pretending he had caught a thief. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was almost a shame the way the cap’n set ’bout searching the thieves’ home. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
Basil Stag Hare and Jess Squirrel were as thick as thieves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
We were about to give up looking when Saidu shouted from behind the storage house in the village: “I found the thief and he is angry.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
There’s never an article in the paper talking about the local chair thief. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Like thieves, they go somewhere, they look, they take, but they don’t go back to the same place again. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
“But the question is, was it just some ordinary thief, or was it someone that had some special reason? I don’t like it. I got a bad feeling about the whole thing.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now if burglars broke in again, and the family were at home, there would be a second round of locks for the thieves to contend with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The Codds were not well regarded in the Iron Islands; the men were said to be thieves and cowards, the women wantons who bedded with their own fathers and brothers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
As if he or she were playing on Petra and Calder’s fears, the thief resurfaced the next morning. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
This started a discussion about art theft, and about how thieves sometimes cut canvases out of frames. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Who wants to hire a convicted identity thief? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I had become an accomplished beggar and thief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Did you take my medal? Are you a thief?” he asked, deranged from the cold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
"No man calls me a thief—not more than once, at any rate." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
The third guy had been a mail thief as a kid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
In the end, gathering his courage, he leaped over Gollum in the dark, and fled away down the passage, pursued by his enemy’s cries of hate and despair: Thief, thief! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
This last sends me drifting off in a sci-fi direction: And as the time thieves headed back to the year 3420, loaded with weekends and days off looted from the twenty-first century . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I saw the thief,” I say with a shiver. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
When Baba was six, a thief walked into my grandfather’s house in the middle of the night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“We aren’t thieves. See, here are our identity cards from the police,” Eye said as Ear tried to make Arm comfortable. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
But Finn didn’t like movies, and he thought the crows were nothing but jokers and thieves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
Sana lowers the knife, but then the leader of the thieves calls to her and, seeing her hesitation, stalks toward us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
And tomorrow I shall become a thief, because I am afraid. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
“You are a murderer or a thief or a racketeer; and you are hiding out.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Sam Meeker sent me. He’s been arrested as a cattle thief.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gods of Hinduism face their fair share of thieves, bullies, kidnappers and usurpers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
The thief could consider his mission to have been successful. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
He must be disguised to avoid encounters with thieves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
We did that many times, but there’s an expression in my culture that says, “The day of the thief is the 40th; the 41st day, you get caught.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I tell him that there’ll be more jobs for everyone when they throw that thief out of the palace. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Grandfather found a small bag of roasted coffee beans the thieves had overlooked, and he cooked a pot for us, army style. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
And a thief of the worst kind, because the things he’d stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Plus, I’m-a give you another fifty once we get them thieves back here. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
“Cystic fibrosis will steal no more from me. From now on, I am the thief.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
The thief stared at Father for a moment. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Like that book thief you once told me about?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even a thief, Julian had said, would not betray his fellows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
But Victor didn't want the police to catch the little thieves. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
But the bus is a lemon, always breaking down, and after they’ve poured heaps of money into repairs, some thieves steal it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Papa reaches for a few coins in his pocket and hands them to the thief, who looks at him in disgust and walks away. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
There could be a mail thief on the loose! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“All right, I done something for you. Now you owes. So tell me—what crime did you do? You’re thieves, aincha?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
“I scour the bottom levels trying to help you find your singer, while all the while both of you are up here, thick as thieves.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
When the painting was stolen and she realized that her ideas about Vermeer’s work sounded like the thief’s, she had been frightened. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
She asked her students to think about what they might have done if the thief had written them a personal letter before the theft took place, a letter delivered to their home. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
At the bridge’s center span, the severed hands of thieves and cutpurses hung like strings of onions from iron stanchions along the roadway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
A moment later, the thief went outside to get the other one. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
At any moment, I expected Miss Lilian to scream, “Stop, thief! Do you hear me? Stop!” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
“So much for honor among thieves, eh, Jinx?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Somebody in the family had stolen it, and no one except the thief knew who. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
“You boys are thieves and liars,” he told us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even in the fading light I could tell the house was a disaster; it looked like it’d been ransacked by thieves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
“More like honor among thieves, if you will.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Insert a candle and it gives light only to the holder! Best friend of thieves and plunderers! Your son has fine taste, sir.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Right away then, the guy would know for sure that I wasn't going to take a sock at him, and he probably would've said, "Listen. Let's get this straight. Are you calling me a thief?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
He stared at her as if she were a thief digging for secrets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
"You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
‘King Darzin,’ he sniffled, ‘that wicked thief El-ahrairah has said he will steal your lettuces and he is coming to trick you and get into the garden.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though I kept a wary eye on the thieves, he did not deign to glance back even once. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
The thief had to turn around or lose his leg. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Blue Tents clearly felt no pity for those two thieves sitting in their chairs, staring at the floor—voiceless, useless, lifeless—like a pair of mannequins in a Dumpster. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Honored ones, let me take this...this pretender, this prince of thieves, to the mines, where his words will be the only ones he hears in a long time.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
“Are all those doors to keep thieves from getting in?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Known jewel thief and treasure hunter. But don’t worry—the FBI and I are on his tail, sir.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
A good magician wasn’t much different from a proper thief. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“The thief and robber of an agent—and may his mother and his mother’s mother be cursed for him—took all that I had. No debts can be paid.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
And no one suspected the pretty blond girl with the ‘megawatt smile’ of being a professional jewel thief.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
By the time it returns to normal, the white-haired thief is well gone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
At the gate, she skulked; she felt like a thief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
I was coming out of the hardware store when I heard a guy down the street shouting, "Stop, thief!" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I climbed the stairs like a thief, slow and quiet, alert and scared, one shoulder dropped back, fingertips trailing the wall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
“You want to hear about the Hoppers who said we were thieves or the Cranbeps who thought we were brutes or the nasty Burgerton boys?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
When rival thieves took up the racket, he suspended the stealing until the culprits were caught and the bakery owners dropped their guard. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
We both watched the thief slip around the corner, out of sight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
Meggie heard her in the house, calling to the chocolate thief. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
After a while, Ron whispered, “Couldn’t you see what the thief was holding?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
He wanted to kick the soft white bodies into the Atlantic Ocean; he wanted to scream to all of them that they were trespassers and thieves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
I gave a cry of dismay as the other thieves sprang forward. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
“He’s a thief. He’ll steal—” He stopped, as if he had remembered something, and then to my dismay he gave a terrible groan and tried to get out of the bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
He’d trailed the professional thieves of the Barrel and learned how to pick pockets and how to cut the laces on a lady’s purse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
My cousins and I were thick as thieves, and we would stay that way even when we grew up and started our own families. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
"If someone spots us, they might think we're thieves and call the police to come beat us up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
“Murderers and rapers may be forced to fight, and all those who persist in slaving, but not thieves or debtors.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Benji yanked his hands off the keyboard like a thief caught stealing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
I stare at the names and I think about how I got them, and I'm not proud of myself for being a sneak thief. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Heleen had called her a criminal, but to them, she was only a little thief in scraps of purple silk. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The man who’d been cut off by another man up tide might motor abreast of the interloper in order to shake a gaff at him and curse him up and down as a fish thief. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
I found the idea of Baba clobbering a thief both exhilarating and terribly frightening. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Nox is here—and he’s a thief! How could you let him come—with all this jewelry flashing about—and not me? How can I be the King’s Champion if you don’t trust me?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
“A possibility, of course. But I’m inclined to believe that the thief took it for a different reason.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
When I was in the almost completely dark backyard, it occurred to me that if any of the neighbors happened to be looking out their window, I’d look very much like a thief. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
If you take something that doesn’t belong to you, you are not just a thief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
We did not have enough work to do because a thief’s life is always based on somebody else’s work. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
What if the person within thinks me a thief in the night or a murderess? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
They shouted and beat the trees, looking for the thief who stole the king’s life, but no murderer was found there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
She asked herself where she would leave the painting if she were the thief and were trying to escape from Hyde Park unnoticed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
A broken window showed how the thief had entered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
They were clever thieves and nothing I stored would be safe until I had built a fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have the rocky situation where the sonofabitching thief is made a national hero and is going to get off on a mistrial,” he told an aide. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Tales were told that they were bootleggers, thieves, and just all-round “noaccounts.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
You might be able to say that the Amoses were some mean old nosy folks, but you couldn’t call them thieves. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
“It’s your life. I’m not having that little thief back in here. You don’t have to come back either.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z
“So this is the home of the book thief?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
To say the doctor pushed for expensive tests was like calling him a thief. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
“He’s probably out there napping right now, lazy old thief.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
He had gone hunting there in company with his uncles and Autolykos, his mother’s father—a great thief and swindler by Hermes’ favor, for Autolykos pleased him with burnt offerings of sheep and kids. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
In any average white neighbothood bar, you couldn’t imagine a known cat-man thief regularly exposing himself, as one of the most popular people in there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
And it’s not like I couldn’t tell Miss Celia what happened, tell her I’m not a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Like all who travel, though, I watched for thieves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
In the middle of the press, a boy tried to reach into his purse, but a hard elbow put an end to that and spread the thief’s bloody nose across half his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
“They were thieves and they went to Beaver Corners, not far from here. The conservation officer arrested them this morning.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I want my bonnet back right after the lecture, you lying thief,” she says, low enough that Miss Duncan can't hear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I thought about setting that down, but then I remembered that Hermes was also the god of thieves. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
For a moment she was swept by panic and about to scream, but then she remembered that old Pedro Garcia had once told her that thieves never wear clothes so dogs will not attack them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
These are the thieves, murderers, rapists, and politicians, who feed on the Sheep until they’re thrown in prison, or better yet, belly up in a landfill alongside sheaves of your grandma’s itchy hand-knit Christmas socks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Room by room, I terrorize their belongings, just like a thief on a TV show. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I think of everyone who might be awake with me—insomniacs, thieves, anarchists, women with children who drowned in their baths. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
There would be nothing inside to tempt any thieves; Ento had been deserted as if it were the host of a plague. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Could the thief have stuck her underneath someone’s porch? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t know there were going to be chicken thieves. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
“Those who die heroic deaths are long remembered, thieves and drunks and cravens soon forgotten.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I put a little starlight in them, but it is really quite faint: not enough, I am sure, to give away a clever thief like you. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Serves me right, sneaking in like a thief. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
The biographies were closest to the ocean and were especially moldy and not as desirable for the thieves. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
After he falls asleep, I watch some dumb movie about art thieves. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
“It’s a useful thing to have in the house in case of fire or thieves,” observed Laurie, as a watchman’s rattle appeared, amid the laughter of the girls. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was already late in the day and it was another hour and deep into the long dusk before they overtook the thief, bent over the loaded cart, trundling down the road before them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
Sometimes servants were ordered to stay behind to guard the house against thieves; sometimes everyone living under a roof fled. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
“Yeah,” said Lyra, “I always thought he was a thief. And a rogue and all that.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
Robin now had the antique pistol, and looked so eager to use it that I was sure she would discourage any would-be thief. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
The teachers, the pupils, the principal, everyone at school knew: Teddy and Trevor, thick as thieves. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
That was all the proof Paishon needed, and he punched the thief in the mouth. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“You mean like one of the three letters the thief talked about?” asked Calder. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
"It's about a gentleman thief who helps honest men ruined by swindlers." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
The only thing Robin has in common with the legendary hero of Nottingham is that he’s an expert thief. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
And wouldn’t any thief have been happy with even a thousand zloty? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
“Do you know how insulting it is to pretend to be some nobody thief from a small city in Fenharrow?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Back in the vault, Dylan said the thief was a technologist. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
Shouts of “thief, thief ” rang out behind her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Tom was too harmless-looking to be a thief, so one day I asked him where he got the stuff. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s been canceled. A Champion was found dead this morning. Xavier—the thief from Melisande.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
“What? No! I would never hitch a ride from this thief!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Still, now Miss Hilly calling me a liar and a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
I had the money, he thought in confusion, And I’m not a thief by nature. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Then Pharaoh will buy my necklaces for Queen Tiy, who is beautiful and kind, and she will smile on me, Ranofer the son of Thutra—and I will not be a thief! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
“Jewel thieves, or second-story men as they are sometimes called, are good at climbing up fire escapes and crawling through partially open windows,” added Agent Tillman. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
“When the police figure out who the thief really is, and it isn’t my brother, then you have to give the bird back to the library.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
But Farin insisted he was no thief, and he also knew that the magistrate could be easily bribed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The last page carried a message to the thief. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
When your boss says you should be more of a team player, that means she wants you to take on more of her work. thick as thieves. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Oh . . . nothing. I was just—No, it has to be Hades. Maybe he sent this thief, this invisible person, to get the master bolt, and something went wrong—” “Like what?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
“It surprises me that Sam would be taken for a thief. I thought he was a man of greater patriotism than that, but people fool you.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If you do that,” she cried, “you are a thief and a wretch! You gave me your word. The Fair Folk don’t go back on their word.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
She had gotten a letter from the thief. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Hugo had become a thief to survive and to help the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z
After the shootings he raised a window in his bedroom and removed the screen, then roamed the house rifling dresser drawers and scattering the contents: it was his intention to blame the crime on thieves. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You will show the diviner some respect, thief.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
What if it is Rufus and he’s got a gang of thieves with him or something? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
And he wondered what Adam meant, saying his father was a thief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
In photographs from the time he looks like the underworld figures he idolized, the thin mustachioed thieves and gamblers who filled the seaside bars of Athens and Constantinople. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
“So the thief knew where you were going?” says Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
"You could have had fire whenever you wanted. But you didn't. You came sneaking up like a thief and stole Piggy's glasses!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
“I knew it. All rodents are liars and thieves. She is not in the dungeon. My men have searched the dungeon. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
“Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. This is a port, and every port has its thieves.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
‘Using somebody's things without permission is as bad as stealing. So you’re a thief and a burglar. You’re a burglar because you came into my room without me saying so.’Kingshaw did not reply. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
“I am quite a talented thief,” he said with a touch of pride. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
"That may or may not be. In any case, I have never liked thieves, and I suspect you are one." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
But Matthias disliked how well this low thief could read him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He was a runaway and a thief and a liar, and if there was a word for someone who disrespects a monk in his own temple, he was that, too. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Now I was a stinkpot and a thief. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
I guess that makes me a pretty big thief. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Why do you work here, guarding people like they be thieves?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Let me try to explain it again,” Milo offered with growing weariness and exasperation, jerking his thumb toward the thief with the sweet tooth, still grinning beside him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
We are not thieves or shameful or something to be hidden away. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
He makes of me not only a thief but a coward. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
He gestures at the bush we’re hiding in, hiding in like thieves. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
“Keep an eye out for thieves,” he told her. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
This fame also attracted many of the thieves and robbers who lurked in the markets. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z
It was then that the rats were driven to become scavengers and thieves, living on the fringes of a world run by men. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
"I'm worse than a pig thief," he said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
Oh, well, turns out whenever the elders were summoned beneath Isihlangu, a feast was in order—never mind that it was because we had arrived as thieves in the night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
The failed thief steps away and stands in front of me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
"What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I won many times and was so lucky the others teased that I had learned the trick of a clever thief,” she said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the boys started calling me “thief” and “jail rat” and I knew only one way to settle the argument: with my fists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
Why else should he have fled in the night like a common thief? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Once I was sure she wasn’t going to hit me with a eucalyptus stick as punishment, I smiled inside, because that rotten, lying thief Alfonso and his wife got what they deserved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And how did you come by this? We are no thieves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Ms. Hussey asked, “Why do people assume the thief is just one person? I mean, couldn’t this be a group?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Weeping softly, the thief shuffled back to her seat. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I caught a thief! I caught a thief!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
They told of thieves who crept in and stole jewelry off the dead and dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“My son is no thief,” she said firmly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Saying it out loud almost made him feel ashamed, as if he’d just admitted he was a thief. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
“Surrender, rat, I’ve got you,” cried Mr. Fieldmouse as he grabbed hold of the thief. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
I mentioned a mail thief as a joke, but maybe there really is one. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, “Halloa, young thief!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z
After the thief’s first published letter, the fuss over A Lady Writing had been tremendous. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
The Supreme Court, said Wallace, was “stealing little by little as a thief in the night to destroy local government.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The cows could graze at the bottom, and I could keep a lookout for thieves or wild animals. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
If someone yelled “Stop, thief!” he was the guy who gave chase. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Apart from the brotherhood of riders here, there is also here a brotherhood of rateros, thieves, swarming The Beast like rats. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
The other maids and Mami put two and two together, and the sum was that now for almost two months we had been living with a thief! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
She moved with the quick steps of a thief, or a blackbird hunting insects, so sure and elegant that Tanin’s breath caught in her throat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Mr. Leroy gave me a shake and said, “Son? You think that man would thief my money?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z
He certainly didn't want to give Esther a chance to say that he had turned his little brother into a thief. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
I ain’t gone be able to get no other job as a maid, not with Miss Leefolt and Miss Hilly calling me a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
And, as the thief had pointed out, wasn’t one set of eyes as good as any other? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
They’ve picked it from her mind the way a thief picks a plum off a tree. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“A thief and a liar. You stole that from the third act of Daeonica. ” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
If it is so, then I too have been a thief, though I did not know it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Less than five minutes later he was back, and he sneaked up the stairs like a thief to visit us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Regular people corner thieves in alleys for quick retribution and, if he is stupid and has robbed wrong, thieves comer him too. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t speak to food thieves,” I say. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
And then he said: “You’re a thief and a liar, Edward, but it’s no use. Stand back from the door.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
But other people before you were thieves maybe, or liars, so they’ve become hard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
That she was so very good at remaining unseen made her an excellent thief of secrets, the best in the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He had a crazy desire to believe that there had been some mistake, that Floyd Lee had gotten them innocently, maybe buying them from the real thieves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
Our house stood behind a high stone wall which had chips of broken glass sticking up from the top to keep thieves away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Now a certain man,” she began, “went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves — ” Suddenly she had an inspiration. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
The tomb drawing clung in his mind, and so did Heqet’s idea that there was some thieves’ plan connected with that little room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Nox shouted at Grave, and she dared a look to where the thief dangled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Enraged, the emperor had the thief brought before him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
Thousands of prisoners, from murderers and rapists to DUIs and petty thieves, were thrown together on the stadium grass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
For months now she can barely drag herself from bed in the mornings, and after school she flops right back in, frantically knitting Baby Jesus dresses and ranting about thieves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you think she was waiting all that time for the thief to get back in touch with her?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Herman E. Calloway didn’t have to worry, I was a liar, not a thief. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
He thought he’d be running down thieves in the Barrel or patrolling the harbors, getting first look at cargo coming in on the docks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The woman behind her didn’t look like a chicken thief. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
“I don’t want anyone saying I’m a thief,” my father said. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z
“Out! Get out of here, you little thief!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
“Leave him be, you—you stinking jail rat. You’re nothing but a common thief!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
We’d roll the beds into a semicircle and fight off the horse thieves. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
That way, I thought, if they got caught, they could just tell the cops, “Hey, it was a gift. We ain’t no thieves.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
“I knew it. I knew that girl was a thief the day she started.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
It made them think I was a thief or maybe I'd do something to their swimming pool...and that white was better. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
"They're thieves and cravens, and they have green teeth from eating frogs." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
You and your kind are also cheats and thieves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“This isn’t a job for trained soldiers and spies. It’s a job for thugs and thieves. Van Eck knows it, and that’s why he brought us in.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
But once me and the cap’n got back to the hotel and he started planning how we was gonna catch the gang of thieves, I mostly forgot ’bout how rude these Yankees was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
While Dorian had congratulated her for saving Nox, and while the thief had hugged and thanked her again and again, only Chaol had frowned when the Test was over. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Even wicked people, thieves and robbers have children, love them and are loved by them, except me. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
I looked around the little dead girl’s room and could see that even a hard-up thief wouldn’t find nothing much worth stealing in here. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
So it was that Gollum passed him without seeing him, and went to guard the way out, lest the ‘thief’ should escape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
I’m not used to eating with thieves in a gross cafeteria. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
"I did not say you were a thief. I said I suspected it. If I am wrong, I'll gladly tender an apology." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
An estimated $12 million a year is lost to thieves in Harlem alone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Apparently, daring rescues weren’t part of a jewel thief’s repertoire. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
The last time anyone saw her alive was when with one shot she killed a thief who was trying to force the door of her house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
"This would doubt-less involve the four men your man Bronn searched for so diligently in all the low places of King's Landing. A thief, a poisoner, a mummer, and a murderer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I’m having to remind myself of that particular hard with each passing sunrise that takes us closer to them thieves and farther off from Possum Moan and the last time Cap’n Buck took a bath. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
I love spinning the little dial, pretending I’m an international jewel thief. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
There were thieves and pickpockets and even men who would snap up little boys and sell them to the highest bidder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
I’ve heard rumors of Scholar thieves lurking in the catacombs, popping through grates to grab, raid, and usually kill whoever is nearby before dropping back into their lair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The thieves hadn’t bothered to take any of the herbs drying overhead. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
While the guard deals with the thieves, Mr. Shephard walks me to a small room and unlocks the door. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
“Why do you have my yearbook? Are you book thieves?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Plus, the woman who was the leader of the thieves wasn’t having none of being quiet. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
They swarmed upon the attempted thief, who collapsed to the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
They chain us together like thieves and beat us till we bleed. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
But now his thoughts were muddied with these thugs and thieves, with Inej’s courage and Jesper’s daring, and with Nina, always Nina. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The school was notorious for “borrowers” —kids who weren’t exactly thieves but walked off with anything that wasn’t nailed down or locked up. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thief looked at the child and what he saw was very sobering to him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z
Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Con: I don’t know if she can protect me from fires and thieves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
This was a first: An art scholar had become a thief and was asking the public for help. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Along the way, I had to do battle with several NPCs: a troll, a Cyclops, and a really annoying thief. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
My grandfather, a respected judge, confronted him, but the thief stabbed him in the throat, killing him instantly—and robbing Baba of a father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
This was a port town, and the only truthful thing his friend had told him was that port towns are full of thieves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I jerk away from her, and the thieves’ bows, which had dropped a notch, come back up. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Which seemed like an awfully slow and noisy escape for a chicken thief. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
The thief fled on foot but was later spotted entering a yellow car driven by a black man with a beard and a mustache. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had no idea where the idea of Black people as thieves came from, but it wasn’t the first time something like that had happened. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
One of them was a murderer, they thought, and one of them was a bomber, and one of them was a thief. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Can he really smell a thief down there?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
Someone was in the room with him and he thought of thieves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about as stealthy as water buffaloes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
Then, as if some thief had sneaked up behind me and robbed me of everything I had always believed to be right and holy, I felt a terrible thing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The culprit was a falcon thief named Bate. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
The force of the blow lifted the thief clean off his feet, and, before Constance could grab hold of him, he overbalanced and hurtled over the edge of the parapet with a horrible scream. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
There he was, the unknown thief, the thief he was seeking.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Then I thought that it might be some thief brought to his lawful end. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
I felt like a thief trying to steal a good look at my father’s face through the rearview mirror. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
He had attempted several careers, as soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, thief, the last of which had earned him a sentence of three to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Now return it to its owner before one of these lazy gentlemen calls you a thief.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
At that very same moment, the thieves disappeared, and the only sound Mr. van D. could hear was the frightened pounding of his fatalistic wife’s heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
I crept back into the basement like a highly skilled sneak thief and then proceeded to listen to the most calming music I know: the Beatles. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
They provided warnings about thieves and barbarian tribes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Con: So I probably wouldn’t be safe from fires and thieves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
I prowl through the dark house like a thief. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
I guess it makes more sense than the truth—that Dain has selected me to be part of his nest of thieves and spies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“Where he poaches my father’s game in his absence, the thief,” interjected Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The Great Depression had wiped out many Osage fortunes that had already been diminished by guardians and thieves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
One of the drivers suggested that she take the stable dog along for company and protection against milk thieves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
If this had not been so, the thief would have been roasted alive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
A string of nights now she’d come here since the first time, and each time she’d slipped in as silently as a thief. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
All the Champions had stopped to see her save the falling thief. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Unglazed, the work was of little interest to thieves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
Once the thieves cleared the door, these few quickly rose to their feet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
“He is a horrible thief,” Mama would say with a half smile. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
Lost and bewildered though I was I could contain myself no longer and I said sharply there was not too little care but too many thieves, and saw them nodding in facile agreement. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
For now, there was nothing the men could do but wait to see if more food disappeared and try to catch the thief in the act. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
“First cross-species thief! Mud People have been stealing from us for millennia. Why do you think we live underground?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
Somehow, they thought we were a part of some grand circle of thieves, but we were innocent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
"It was—it was stolen from me wallet. By a thief." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
"A bad thief," Arya said, "or he wouldn't have got caught." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
“To keep him from telling me who I was. It was you who said I was a thief and proclaimed me a wolf’s head so that any man might kill me.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
Wang Lung said nothing then, but he was angry and afraid in his heart because his sons were growing into thieves here in this city. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
“I know. You told me. My father is thief.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Ivy’s mind whirled like a top over hardwood as she thought of the notebook thief’s words. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
He was convinced Ibni was the thief, though he could not say why. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Why would a professional thief ask an old woman and a young schoolteacher to help him or her? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m a lot of things, but I’m not a thief” Bianca didn’t say anything. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
“We just have to hope,” Ms. Hussey said, “that this thief is not a professional.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
“I want to try out for this play and that woman might be one of the judges and she’s going to think I’m a thief and not let them pick me.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
Without taking her rabid eyes off the thief, Delia kicked both sandals aside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
“I always said he was a thief. And my mother! To forsake my father, who was like Hyperion, the sun god, and bind herself to this demon! Where is her judgment, where is her reason?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Hearing your maid’s a thief is like hearing your kid’s teacher’s a twiddler. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
The thieves and I turn to see a thin man appear from nowhere, one who looks like he is made all of wire. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
But now, thanks to Rae, cold-shouldering queen of thieves, I’m staring at a painful reminder of everything I wanted to forget. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
Supposing this man was a thief, and Mrs. Danvers was in his pay? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
Death has always walked close—an earthquake, a hurricane, a disease, a thief and his knife. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
As we leave, I keep my eyes on the boy in black, who is possibly both a liar and a thief. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
The thief almost seemed to be showing off, thumbing his nose at the authorities. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
“Don’t be absurd. How could I trust anybody more? You would only have to show that mug of yours outside the dog kennel and all the thieves would run away at once.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the moment, I was unable to pursue the shameless thief, so I began to scream. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was something else the cap’n wasn’t seeing about Sylvanus neither, and even though the boy was a thief, it had me feeling right sorry and sympathetic for him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
"The thief stole my boots and put them back again. They leak." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Untended! Looking for trouble that was! There are many thieves and strangers about these days.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
Miss Whitlaw waved her hand as if the thief were some stray dog. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
She says, “My father is not a thief.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Maybe it’s time I quit sneaking in and out of the library like some thief. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Drunk on Mourning and just recently a thief, I guessed the less contact I had with the clergy the better off I’d be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“No! I’m not a thief! I was following a rude horned toad and it dropped it.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
And I sure didn’t want a thief to use Henrietta’s powers for evil purposes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
“Rontu,” I would say after he had stolen a special fish I had speared for my supper, “tell me why it is that you are such a handsome dog and yet such a thief.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Never fear, little miss. My heart assures me that you’re neither a thief nor a robber.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
The Depression must have hit the white section of Stamps with cyclonic impact, but it seeped into the Black area slowly, like a thief with misgivings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
They said only a bike thief like me would read books in a group home. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
Kaz relied on the fact that the Dregs were all murderers, thieves, and liars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“Suppose the thief didn’t steal outright,” I said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Even dealings with cattle rustlers and horse thieves had to be compromised; they were shot instead of hanged because there weren’t any trees tall enough from which to let them swing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
She brings me lemon balm tea to settle my nerves and starts cleaning up the mess, breathing hard with effort and fear, muttering about how she knew it, that thieves are lurking around every comer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Yeah, but what if the thief turns out not to be as moral as he sounds—what if he’s a real sicko?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
The worst body belonged to a car thief from Cicero, Illinois. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Did you hear me? He is not a thief. He is a hungry soldier.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“Maybe. All I know is your gram and Madeline were thick as thieves after your gram came back to school.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
I only remember where it said the people who had been working for Duvalier, the thieves and thugs and secret police, all those Macoutes, could not be in the government anymore. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was a liar and a thief and a runaway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Maybe it was his treasure to have wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled the size of his flock without spending a cent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Say the thief had offered lots of money, promised that the cause was honorable, and—last but not least—threatened their life if they showed the letter to anyone else. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
“That’s only a problem if you don’t know a proper thief. Leave the locks to me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The evil, jiggly-chinned thief is plotting to blow up the world, and I am the only hope to unlock the drawer in time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Park asked why he was so afraid of a little song when he was willing to hear seditious stories about how Kim Jong II was a thief and North Korea was a hellhole. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
He wasn’t her baby any more but a wild thing, a thief, a robber. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
His clothes weren’t as ratty as the other competitors’; the mere fact that she’d actually heard his name implied he must have been a good thief in Perranth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
What if Mrs. Krajewska is looking out her window, like she always does, and sees the man who was supposed to be my brother sneaking like a thief into my house? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
He didn’t want to contact the police before he was sure the thief wasn’t going to contact him with an interesting proposal that he could then use in a book. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
He had been a prisoner, a snitch, a fugitive, and a thief, but never an employee. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
“I am not a thief, boy! I am not trying to procure treasures to which I have no right!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Bobby Gene seemed to have forgotten about us being thieves. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
But a small, frightened voice in the back of my mind warned me that they might be something worse than thieves. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
The thief did as he was asked but crossed his arms over his chest and stood his ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
Samantha wasn’t sure if Ella would know how to guard against chicken thieves, but she said if I have any more trouble to let her know and she would look it up in her book. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
"Younger, bolder, and far more comely . . ." ". . . and a thief and a usurper besides." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Stealing is a vile crime on Winter; indeed the only man more despised than the thief is the suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I see. You don’t blame her. You blame a woman of standards and ideals. If a thief broke into Levy Pants, I’d be to blame. You need help, Gus. Badly.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
Ingrid said he was a thief, but she thought he was stirred to know me, not to hurt me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
Apparently, they’re not concerned about thieves stealing all the visitor maps at night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
He would shrug and shake his head over the wickedness of boys, and point to Ranofer as the thief. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Yoren had taken grown men from the dungeons as well, thieves and poachers and rapers and the Uke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The better roads were cleared of cover for a bow-shot on either side of them, lest the traveller should be slam by hidden thieves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t know who this thief is or who he’s supposed to have stolen from, but no one is going to kill anyone on my property. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
Class began with a discussion about the thief’s latest ad. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
If you are treated as an untrustworthy person—a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief—you may begin to feel less trustworthy yourself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
News flash: Invisible people make excellent spies and thieves. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
She listened careful then said, “So now that your thief done died, is you heading di-rect back to Canada or is they some other white men’s th’oats ’round here that you need to cut?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z
“No she isn’t. She told the priest we weren’t thieves, remember?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Ms. Hussey gave him all the ideas about attribution that went into the thief’s letters. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Many were siding with the opinions of the thief. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
I swung the sword and gashed the thief’s shoulder. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
And all these thieves in the central, are they not ashamed? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Better a company of fools than the company of thieves." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
At least long enough to make sure they knew that lady was a thief, so they wouldn’t give Henrietta to her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z
Ben had been a ballplayer for a long time and he knew other ballplayers the way a gypsy knows other gypsies or a thief other thieves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
“Wait. You mean to tell me you’ve got a bunch of money just sitting out there in the ground? For any old thief to come along and steal it?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
After breakfast, Nathan searched the cornfield, looking for more evidence of the thief. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
The thief had thrown both vases from the same spot on the cliff; the other one should be somewhere nearby. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
"If I was not corrupted long since, growing up in Alsatia among thieves and beggars, then I must be incorruptible." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
The two of them had grown thick as thieves since Chiggen had died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
I simmered as the thief rubbed the queen with his dirty fingers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
They ran, but already the thieves were sliding down the cloak and at their heels. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z
“The thief pulled me into the alley, and he says, ‘Ha! The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
“It’s your money and I’m not a thief. It doesn’t matter to me what you think about it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
By chance she had chosen the three most obstreperous pupils in the school to be her thieves and robbers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
“Come on, Nat. It’s not everybody who gets to live down the street from thieves and murderers, you know.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thief snaps her fingers and all the spotlights shut off at once. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
They’d stop their laughing if they knew her true name, if they knew that this “jewel thief” could skin them alive without a knife. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
“Don't worry. But get out of my office. Do you really think I would open my safe with you little thieves watching me?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t want you going downtown with Hamza to loot and steal. It’s wrong! We didn’t raise you to be a thief. And it’s worse that you’re teaching your brother.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
She wasn’t a slave; she was a valued member of the Dregs, a thief of secrets, the best in the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
That means the righteous, Christian thing about going north with Cap’n Buck is that by bringing thieves back to pay for their sins, we’s helping to right a great wrong. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
“Who did, Mr. Deckard? Animal thieves? We just got a report on a huge new gang of them, probably teenagers, operating in—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
“People like this thief come and harvest everything so that we will starve to death.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“I smell a thief!” he shouts, casting around him, knocking over a tankard of dark brown beer, his warty nose sniffing the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
He refused to believe it when Dustfinger told him they hadn't come with him, he had left them behind in a book along with the thieves who used to beat and kick him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
If I moved fast enough, I could cut off the tiny thief. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
The majority of sixth graders sided with the thief, concluding that Vermeer’s early and late works were indeed suspicious. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
“Tyler Croft, you’re a thief! I hope you die, you miserable piece of crud!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Just thinking about those horrible thieves makes my heart race,” she moans, pressing her hand to her chest. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The thief wasn’t there, and the owner brought him a cup of tea. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You never call someone a thief unless you catch them stealing.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
The lemonade thief has hit the roustabouts where it hurts, and they’re prepared to take action. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
“We’ve just received word that there is an intruder in the temple, a thief!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“And one day I’m going to help him! I’m going to be a big thief, Scipio will teach me!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
There was a monkey, once, but it was a terrible thief. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
The boy thieves— what choice did they have with no homes or families—only workhouses that pretended Christian charity and dealt out despair? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
With so many thieves around anxious to get rid of stolen good-quality merchandise cheaply, many Harlemites, purely because of this conditioning, jumped to pay hot prices for inferior goods whose sale was perfectly legitimate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We’re born drinkers and gamblers, profaners and idolaters, liars and thieves, all hateful in the sight of the Lord, every one of us, down to the smallest.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
Like all grates in the Quarter, it leads down into the Serra’s catacombs: home to skeletons, ghosts, rats, thieves...and possibly the Scholars’ Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
A soldier stood by to frustrate the designs of thieves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
A gang of kids, little thieves in training, flutters through the fray with sticky, searching fingers. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z
“My men are not always too happy at the thought of entering the Thieves Quarter. Many of the thieves resist change.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
And now, fifteen years after I’d buried him, I was learning that Baba had been a thief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
The thief got up, not quite believing that he was free. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Suppose he robbed you through deception. Would that thief deserve the same punishment as a bandit?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps some thieves were stealing livestock from the nearby farm, they said, explaining away the distant sound of gunshots. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
In those days he was a small-time thief whose heart was stolen by Veronica Saldivia. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
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