| 单词 | filch |
| 例句 | "Of course. The book keeper keeps it under lock and key. People filch them sometimes, you know. Do their own version. It hurts our box, then." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “I filched it,” Matt announced with matter-of-fact pride. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We beg and work sometimes and filch from stalls when we can...I and the other boys....I know every street and alley,” he added proudly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She guzzled her drink and filched a glass of bourbon from a nearby table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He knew a hundredfold of me compared to what I had filched from him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy carried on as before, hunting rats, filching his mother’s food, and always enduring her beatings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 He could walk to school, cutting through a field where he would sometimes filch a ripe melon for an after-school snack. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The server who hadn’t acknowledged me had a round, shaved head and, like many food workers, had grown a bit pudgy from the practically unlimited opportunity he had to filch food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the faces of men who were not there and of children from whom the life had been filched, and yet it was black night, blacker than black since the stars were hidden. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He filched an old kettle and two lumps of sugar, just in case. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She filched one anyway, and ate it on her way out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Once when I filched a cookie from the jar, Mom called me the Blushing Bandit, on account of my red face. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Hands shaking, I pull on the combat boots and fatigues Izzi filched from the school’s supply closets. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Frankie showing off the old service revolver he’d traded a filched pocket watch for, practicing on milk bottles and tin cans. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A few weeks later I stumbled home from the garage apartment late one night, drunk on some gin filched from a friend’s parents’ liquor cabinet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that the boys in the hotel filched whatever they could. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit. Is there room for opposite palates on one Viennese plate? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s a line that Mr. Malkovich might easily filch to excuse his participation in this execrable remarriage comedy, one that’s mystifyingly seeded with acting heavyweights. Review: Fifth Time’s Not the Charm in This ‘Wilde Wedding’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It seems there’s a secret mechanism called a Lektor that may be filched from the Soviet Embassy in Turkey, if the cards — and the cads — are smartly played. ‘Bond, James Bond,’ Through the Years 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Joy is really a collage, bits filched from the biography of its lead as much as its subject. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z And so it made a certain sense that it was her good goods that fetched the best prices on Saturday, while his brown wood furniture and filched hotel ashtrays sold as so much sentimental dross. The Gimlet Eye: Trading on Sentiment at Dominick Dunne?s Estate Sale 2010-11-25T05:00:00Z The stoop-sale sign will exist as a unit of communication and an act of community for as long as people continue to filch reams of paper from copy rooms, I’d like to think. The Found Art of the Stoop-Sale Sign 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Weekends were spent smoking filched cigarettes at the mall. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z As we’ve reported, Led Zeppelin faces a copyright infringement suit that alleges parts of the 1971 hit were filched from an obscure song by the band Spirit. Led Zeppelin Taps NSYNC Expertise in Stairway to Heaven Case 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It was perhaps only a matter of time until it, too, would be filched by others. Review: A High-Energy St. Lawrence String Quartet at Zankel Hall 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Ireland had used old endpapers from second-hand books, written on them in plausibly faded ink, and attached seals filched from the law office in which he worked. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z By making use of contacts that he’s gained, gleaned, and even filched from Josh, he is getting ahead, very quickly. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft. REVIEW: Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy': The Expendables In Outer Space 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z As curious as we are famished, we filch from each other’s plates: Spaghetti with tuna roe bottarga! Italian sun and a cerulean sea? That’s amore, and it’s all on the Egadis It’s so clumsily told — such a mishmash of allusions, filched plot points and hurried developments — that it’s never even convincing as a perverse buddy movie/on-the-road tale. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that contends parts of the 1971 hit were filched from an obscure song by the band Spirit. Led Zeppelin Sales Soar as Stairway to Heaven Suit Continues 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z But Caesar briefly escapes, returns to Will's place to filch a supply of the wonder drug and gives it to the incarcerated chimps, plus an orangutan and a gorilla. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices — the joke is on you. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z She snorts when she laughs, filches food from the pantry, just because she can, and runs free through the bar-infested woods. Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z Looters were filching desks, chairs and water tanks from state buildings. Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Tempted to start a show myself called "I Know I'm Going to Die Soon" and thus filch the secret of a long and even happier life. Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:24Z When Iris learns that her father has been filching her contest winnings and rummaging through Eva’s shoes for evidence of a nest egg, she declares it the last straw. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo Carlton’s descent into a fog of Alzheimer’s is untimely, as his organization has been tasked with retrieving some tactical nukes filched from a U.S. base in Poland and spirited into Belarus. Review | Outspoken conservative Brad Thor takes aim at Russia in his latest thriller 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But I’m not sure how you get from filching photos to the idea that your niece might be engaged in catfishing. Perspective | Ask Amy: Family is worried about online ‘catfish’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z With “Avalon,” it’s as though Zink glanced at the mundane little formula that recurs throughout her press clippings and filched it for a plot. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z On a tour of the warehouse, he walks back to a cask of 1988 single malt and pulls out a measure of it with a stainless steel column called a filch. Teeling Irish Whiskey's Pots O' Gold 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The fashion and beauty industries may have filched the term from charities that use celebrity “ambassadors.” Noticed: Representing the Republic of Lanc?me 2011-03-25T20:33:10Z At that moment, some people crowding around the installation were behaving quite badly, leaning over baskets heaped with ill-shaped reject pearls and trying to filch a few as Biennale souvenirs. Venice Biennale Features Mika Rottenberg’s ‘NoNoseKnows’ 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z They chatter like the Despicable Me Minions, turn the junk they filch from the streets into marvelous gadgets and, when it’s bedtime, assemble themselves communally into a neat, 16-boxtroll cube. Review: In The Boxtrolls, the Monsters Are the Good Guys 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Shakespeare filched parts of “Hamlet” from Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy.” 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home. Beefy sandwich spirals recipe for a game day feast 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z She had carefully filched enough cash to live on while she moved in anonymity to the Ozarks. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z So there’d been that first experimental filch, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” Stealing from Blockbuster 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile their glittering possessions are filched in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring. Cannes comes down to earth with depression-era movie Nebraska 2013-05-23T17:48:51Z In her 2005 novel March, Geraldine Brooks filched the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and took him on a tour of Civil War battlefields. won the Pulitzer Prize. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z The tale of a young ex-con who assembles an impromptu gang to filch a few bottles of an invaluable whiskey, seemed too minor to get annoyed by, let alone give a Cannes prize to. The Palme d’Amour: Director Michael Haneke, in Repeat Performance, Takes Cannes’ Top Prize 2012-05-27T23:06:36Z Sasha, the young woman with whom “A Visit From the Goon Squad” begins, has a compulsion to steal, and the array of objects she has filched looks “like the work of a miniaturist beaver.” Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z One piece they failed to filch, however, was the Dresden Green, an elaborate diamond hat pin crafted around an extremely rare, almond-shaped celadon-green diamond. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z "But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed." Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It was a time, Indians and historians say, when communal spiritual items were filched by unscrupulous visitors, confiscated by soldiers, or sold and bartered by hungry tribe members who lacked such authority. Apaches’ Dispute With American Museum of Natural History 2013-08-19T22:28:01Z Even the movies this movie steals from have been widely and recently filched. uses Raiders of the Lost Ark as a template; but the makers of already filched the Ark of the Covenant as MacGuffin. Captain America: Been There, Saved That 2011-07-22T19:45:00Z But another way of thinking about it is that they filched her look. Anita Pallenberg Changed How We All Dress, Not Just Keith Richards 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But then Jack’s bass is filched from his apartment, and his charismatic junkie lead singer, the Banished Earl, vanishes along with it. Sam Lipsyte's new ’90s caper novel is a glorious, grungy Gen-X swan song 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z There, according to his autobiography, Sonny filched pretzels and hard-boiled eggs, and learned his first cuss words from an obscenity-squawking parrot. Sonny Barger, biker outlaw and founder of Hells Angels, dies at 83 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z He filched a box of six rocket propelled grenades that he eventually gave to Ukrainian troops. Sounds of Ukrainian counter-offensive echo in ruined village near Russia's border 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous. ‘WHITE GOLD,’ a poem by Christine Larusso 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Hospital and doctors’ information was also filched, the FT reported. Ransomware attack hits 4 Asian countries of AXA subsidiary 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z A supernatural tale suggests that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, to filch from Hamlet, the most haunted figure in all literature. Can the haunted house be reinvented for a digital stage? This L.A. theater tries 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Its operators also have filched industrial data and hacked foreign ministries. Russian government hackers are behind a broad espionage campaign that has compromised U.S. agencies, including Treasury and Commerce 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens. Patients pay thousands for a back pain treatment promoted by exaggerated claims 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z North Korea robs banks, Russian criminals steal money, and China filches intellectual property and databases full of personal information — all using cyber-means, he noted. Hyping the cyberthreat sabotages policymaking, ex-British intelligence official says 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z He would filch it if I wasn’t around. VIRUS DIARY: A friend dies but leaves something to hold onto 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z As unemployment rates nationwide have sunk to record lows, filching workers — from kitchens and construction sites, warehouses and Walmarts, truck cabs and nursing homes — has become routine. Economic Antidote for a Shrinking America: Immigrants 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years. Editorials from around New England 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Far from mending his ways, the filching feline upped his game and stole a plastic bag containing the cash. Cat burglar steals milkman's money 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z They have filched trade secrets related to semiconductors and jet engines and aircraft carriers. Trump administration to condemn China over hacking and economic espionage, escalating tensions between superpowers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Now, this could be because they’re lost in the mail — or filched by a letter carrier who’s really interested in bauxite — but I have a nagging suspicion they never existed at all. Perspective | Some of us love to read. You got a problem with that? 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z It was a treat to read the story, this summer, of how a security worker for the McDonald’s Monopoly contest spent years filching winning tokens and finding co-conspirators to redeem them. Why Are We Suddenly Surrounded by ‘Grift’? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He said that he filched most of this material from Dover books on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century design. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z “Purloin,” “burgle,” “filch,” “steal”: Pick one and the dominoes fall, affecting every word that follows. In Literature, Who Decides When Homage Becomes Theft? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps that classic example — filching office supplies — doesn’t seem like a big deal. Don’t let the shadiest, rudest, loudest win at work | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Though China has often used computer hacking to filch secrets, this case relied on traditional espionage techniques, including the attempted recruitment of corporate insiders. In a first, a Chinese spy is extradited to the U.S. after stealing technology secrets, Justice Dept. says 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z During Judge Kavanaugh’s time there — 15 or so years after women arrived — some fraternity brothers paraded around campus displaying women’s underwear they had filched, drawing criticism. In a Culture of Privilege and Alcohol at Yale, Her World Converged With Kavanaugh’s 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Senior advisers filch documents from his desk to prevent him from issuing rash orders and try to ignore or at least slow-walk those that are issued. It Wasn’t Me: Pence, Pompeo and a Parade of Administration Officials Deny Writing Op-Ed 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology. China’s new $15bn tech fund emulates SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The practise spanned a following—a “Waterloo tooth” was the name given to any gnasher filched from a deceased soldier, an act which continued into the Crimean and American civil wars. Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He and his friends have laptops and cellphones but filch sticky issues of Penthouse, their vocabularies riddled with four-syllable words. A painful coming-of-age debut novel of a gay teen whose family is sundered by suicide 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z A frank and truthful account of how he obtained filched and immensely damaging information over the years, naming names, could be valuable. Ecuador Gives Assange Citizenship, Worsening Standoff With Britain 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers. Intel Faces Scrutiny as Questions Swirl Over Chip Security 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z She filched a copy of the eye chart, allowing him to memorize the letters and pass the exam on his second try. Jerry Yellin, fighter pilot in last combat mission of World War II, dies at 93 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The window of opportunity is rapidly closing on them: Every new story idea the duo comes up with is already claimed by Shakespeare, a shameless plagiarist always eager to filch an idea from Nigel's notebook. 'Something Rotten!' delivers on fluffy, fizzy, frolicsome fun – LA Times 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z She is now under criminal investigation over suspicions that she conspired with a confidante to filch from companies and allow the friend to secretly interfere with state affairs. South Korean ferry saga a tale of government blunders 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach Park in December amid suspicions that she colluded with a confidante to filch from companies and allowed the friend to secretly manipulate state affairs. Hundreds gather ahead of court decision South Korean leader 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I went into the break room and filched a Diet Coke. One Night in Gear Heaven - Golf Digest 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It could also be the skull of a Parisian, filched from the catacombs or acquired from the dissection table of a university anatomist. ‘High art’ with human skull goes on display at museum 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Before you know it, there’s an escaped whatchamacallit—half platypus, half mole—filching jewellery and cash, and a mega-rhino with a glowing horn marauding through Central Park in search of a mate. Fighting Demons with Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The same Putin who mucks around in Syria has filched U.S. emails and barged into the U.S. election. Aleppo is a symbol of American weakness 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The thieves tracked the men back to a lodge, said Trigg County Sheriff’s Deputy David Tomlinson, and filched Yetis from pickups and boats. Yeti Coolers Are Hot! No Really, People Are Stealing Them 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z On the one side is former government contractor Edward Snowden, who filched secrets from the National Security Agency and published them for the world to see. Snowden vs. WikiLeaks 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z As a former leader within the American feminist establishment I cringe every time I realize that someone as corrupt and incompetent as Hillary Clinton filched this milestone from the nation. Hillary Clinton nomination no victory for women 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.” Aretha Franklin’s American Soul 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Such a candidate would appeal to the worst instincts of the common people in order to filch their votes. Donald Trump rattles our foundation: Can the people be trusted with democracy? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z She was right, but she neglected to mention what “Avatar” filched most of its key features from: “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.” ‘Avatar’ merely retells ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle’ 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Just as often, visiting teams and players have filched the attention and adoration. Stephen Curry’s Warriors Are 22-0, and Nets Fans Seem Perfectly Fine With That 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z He would tax Chinese goods sufficiently to get back millions of American factory jobs filched by those devious Asians. The greatest show on earth 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z He saw Mr. Boehner this summer at a family birthday party at Andy’s, he recalled, adding that at one point Mr. Boehner ducked into his house and filched a Bud Light from his refrigerator. Reactions on Boehner’s Home Turf Reflect Divisions in G.O.P. 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z “I am forever grateful to them,” says Georgette Ioup of the immigrants who renovated her home in the Gentilly neighbourhood—though the police, and unscrupulous contractors who sometimes filch workers’ wages, have been less hospitable. Some people got away alright 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The American economy is strengthening, but by no means enough to encourage thieves to filch bronze bells from Chinese temples to send as scrap to the United States. Goodbye to all that 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The vocabulary in the show includes words one might not expect in a children’s show — “surrealistic,” “entrepreneur,” “caprice” and the silly phrase “follicle filching.” What’s onstage for kids 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z She tackles him after he is caught filching some grub, prompting my favorite admonishment of the episode, and maybe the entire series thus far. 'Poldark' Episode 4 Recap: Ignominy vs. Constancy 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z A gang of dull and hoary pirates piously setting themselves the task of disciplining and purifying a kitten that they think they’ve caught filching a chop!” Plagiarism Scandal Rocks The 'Souls' Community 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z At political gatherings, where credentials were required for admission, Frank was not above filching some from a stranger’s jacket. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He has always borrowed freely – or, some would say, filched. Damien Hirst: ‘What have I done? I’ve created a monster’ | Catherine Mayer 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z They didn’t do all that by filching American tech. The silly reason the Chinese aren't allowed on the space station 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Boots and uniforms went next, filched by the poor. Details of Waterloo: Scenes of fighting, cooking and scavenging 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Businesses funded the Modi victory and he is now paying back by helping filch farmers’ land, Rahul Gandhi accused at the farmers’ rally. Modi's Economic Reforms Agenda In India Hits Biggest Roadblock - Land 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Stephen, an Australian who trained in Paris, said that whoever filched the cruffin recipe would find it of limited value. During Bakery Break-In, Only Recipes Are Taken 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The hackers, calling themselves Guardians of Peace, also filched huge volumes of data and leaked large amounts of sensitive company information, including embarrassing internal e-mails. FBI director offers new evidence to back claim North Korea hacked Sony 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Up in our room one evening, several weeks into the term, I watched Cesar roll bits of brown bread, filched from the dining room, into pea-size balls. Whipping Boy 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Greg Vetter knew that if someone was daring enough to sneak into his Annapolis townhouse to filch a jar of his mother’s homemade salad dressing, there must be people willing to buy the stuff. Tessemae’s salad dressing hits Whole Foods, Safeway after humble start at family parties For years, Rudolph would also subsist on pancakes that he made from hundreds of pounds of corn, wheat and soybeans that he filched from local silos, he wrote to his mother. Frein manhunt: 'Striking similarities' to 5-year Olympic bomber search 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z They filch public funds and flush the effluent from their own monuments into the same local infrastructure they beggar with tax breaks and bond issues. Does watching the NFL make you evil? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Untold mischief is released when your identity gets filched. What To Do If Your Identity Is Stolen 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Besides filching 1.2 billion online passwords, the hackers have amassed 500 million e-mail addresses that could help them engineer other crimes, according to Hold Security. Report: Russian hackers steal 1.2 billion user names and passwords He liked his teams to pressure the puck, to filch time and space, and he demanded that his skill players play a 200-foot game. Now With Rangers, Alain Vigneault Finds Success Far From Canadiens 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z In Brittany they latch on to mussels, oysters and scallops, filching their phytoplankton and crippling their growth, while driving away native species of fish and algae. Cancale Journal: In France, a Quest to Convert a Sea Snail Plague Into a Culinary Pleasure 2014-03-12T04:15:52Z I had been a nicotine fiend since my teens, filching Kools from my mother’s purse. Lens Blog: A Veteran Reporter Reflects on a Distant War 2013-09-05T04:05:29Z But many people work in both sectors, filching goods from their state employer to supply their private business. Havana Journal: On May Day in Havana, a Nod to Capitalism 2013-05-02T00:27:05Z While all intelligence agencies work with assumed or filched identities, Reed argued, Mossad creates a bigger probability of reprisals by "by being more severe in its actions, given Israel's security predicament". Spy suicide scandal focuses attention on Israel's foreign Jews 2013-02-14T13:49:22Z Jordan agrees: his interest in the skiff was sparked by discovering that coalminers in Fife used to build and race their own boats on the Forth, using wood from pit props filched from the colliery. Coastal rowing craze inspired by traditional Scottish fishing skiff 2013-01-04T18:28:32Z He and his two siblings would play cricket in the back garden, using kit they filched from their father, who batted for the village team. Alastair Cook: our very own captain fantastic 2012-12-09T00:06:55Z "We've had our pockets picked,/the soft, white hands of bankers,/bold as brass, filching our gold, our silver;/we want it back." UK Poet Laureate lauds people's Games, targets bankers 2012-08-11T15:14:19Z If the filching be but cleverly done, the setting of the stolen gems individual, who cares for the real creator! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z All through the snug little box of a house, filched out of the block of shop premises, there was evidence of the occupations and amusements of Miss Enid. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z He looked fixedly at me for a moment, as if suspecting my thoughts, then from his pocket he produced the identical metal box that he had filched from my father's corse. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z I sprang at him with my sword, the rusty blade that I had filched from those grim and whitened bones. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z How many, for some party interest or political rancour, would deprive you of your rightful renown, strip you of your credit and your fame, and 'filch from you your good name!' The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Around him gamboled the mob, screaming blessings and adulations, strewing his bearers' way with masses of wilted flowers, filched from the halls. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z I shouted triumphantly, handing it to Master Whitehead, and straightway I told them of my meeting with Increase Joyce, and how I secured the temporary possession of the filched document. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z What is it, in Heaven's name, which filches from so many splendid cities the desire to excel, and leaves them content to see the weeds grow over their past achievements? Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Yffim Beg stood there as if his soul had been filched from him; while Azrael approached him with a smile of devilish scorn and stroked his face down with her hand. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Even the remnants of the estates allowed them by the Crown were filched from them by the greed and cunning of unscrupulous Commissioners, who enriched themselves on the ruin of the Irish. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z "Which is the one you filched?" asked the man from Manchester. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Animals in menageries are sometimes great enemies to the milliner’s art; giraffes have been known to filch the flowers adorning a bonnet, and we once saw a lady miserably oppressed by monkeys. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z He rarely, if ever, checked to see if they’d filched the city’s wallet. City Room: For FreshDirect, an Old-Fashioned Handout 2012-02-23T19:41:47Z For example, the fox is full of wit, and withall given wholly to filching for his prey. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z He saw commons filched from the poor, while the labourers fell on the rates. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z But I will endeavour to atone for such sins by publicly restoring all I may have filched from other men’s brains for the benefit of all whom it may concern. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z This is not to say that he practised the vile art of adaptation or the viler art of paraphrase, or in any way filched from the mighty epic of Roncesvalles. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z To provide a new hell which had been “dismissed with costs” from the earth’s centre, he boldly halves heaven and creates chaos and an external hell out of the space he filches from it. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Nearly a billion people across the world use Facebook, making the site a prime target for hackers and criminals hoping to filch personal information. Staying Facebook Friends Depends on Real-Life Connections 2011-12-22T21:05:07Z The papers were gone, filched from him in open assault, in a way of which the boss had never dreamed. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z What mattered it to me whether one crafty statesman held the reins of power, or another outdid him in craft and filched away his bone? The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Google Android’s lax approach to notifying people of needed security patches, allows hackers to continue to easily filch users’ privacy InfoWorld. Android's Pickpocket behind Google Wallet 2011-12-09T14:00:32Z Then it hath been filched," he said, "filched while we slept. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z And O Lord, we beseech Thee, suffer not the oppressed to have justice, lest they rise up against us and refuse to give us the tithes we have filched from the indignant. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The next fragment has been filched by the author of Sanchoniathon, and we must not quote it. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z I filched another look at him; he was burning the roof of his mouth with hot potato as he lolled against my bed foot; and I judged it time to put my plan into execution. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But—it hath been suggested that thy haste may permit thee to waive thy scruples and accept help from me—as it hath been suggested—I filched precious time from thee. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z He has filched from them the last farthing they possessed. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Until you do this, we must look upon your denunciations against O'Connell, as the veriest farce that ever was enacted by the veriest mountebank scoundrel that ever filched a dollar from the pockets of Americans. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But this is not the only method by which the laboring classes are filched out of their honest gains by the holy mother. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z This was filched one day from Chiusi, the pleasant little town where one so often changes trains on the way from Rome. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Drib, drib, v.t. to cut off in small portions: to filch or steal: to lead on by degrees. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The Doctor was more than displeased when he heard from Halsey of the filching of the gold. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z The orphan status of the N9 saddens me a little because, when I filched one to play with, it was tremendous fun. The Nokia N9 - The Nexus One That Became a Nexus 6 2011-09-28T23:43:58Z Thou hast a knave within thy house—Hodge, a servant of thine; They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one, That hen, pig, goose or capon, thy neighbour can have none. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z Only the motor had been filched from them while they slept. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Restlessly he filched his pocket for another cigarette, and tossed himself wearily into a painted rocker. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z "Thou dost filch Turkish maidens for thy unclean embraces; therefore will I carry off thy wife and make her the lowest slave in my harem." 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z Besides these elements of impurity in the atmosphere, there were lockers in the classrooms in which the boys kept their miscellaneous plunder—pigeons killed for fête days, or tidbits filched from the dinner-table. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z It was also true that another nearby resident discovered that someone had filched the canoe he had stored in his backyard. City Room: In Southampton, Irene Blew In the First Hints of Fall 2011-08-29T22:05:23Z One half of his time he spent in filching stray morsels from the kitchen and in dozing in the sun, while the rest of his days were passed—Grimalkin did not know where. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z On the moral side it was that their masters were filching their faith from them. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z On the Upper West Side, cucumbers are tops for filching; in Harlem, the main draws are chilies and herbs; on the Lower East Side, green and red peppers; in Brooklyn and Queens, tomatoes and squash. Pilfered Peppers in City Gardens; Tomatoes, Too 2011-08-05T14:26:57Z Stealthily, as though we were trying to filch some victory, we crept forward. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Dr. Villarreal’s colleagues regularly filch from his cache of dark-chocolate bars, he said, and despite his admonitions, they invariably finish the entire thing. Well: How Chocolate Can Help Your Workout 2011-08-03T04:01:38Z In other areas, deputies say they have witnessed a kind of Robin Hood effect, where some small, struggling farmers filch materials from their better stocked competitors. Farm Thieves Target Grapes, and Even Bees 2011-07-22T01:08:08Z This was the hiding-place where, for seven years, Countess Wildenau had hidden the treasury filched from the cross--the rock sepulchre in which she intended to keep the God whom the world believed dead. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Thou hast been very self-denying, my 54 daughter, concerning this matter, and hast borne the filching of thy pony bravely. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Ostensibly, they amble into H-107 to filch one of McCarthy’s granola bars or to get some information on a pending legislative matter. How Kevin McCarthy Wrangles the Tea Party in Washington 2011-07-15T15:15:55Z "Not out of nothing; out of the coppers that Jean Bouchon had filched from us, and which choked up his coffin." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z What will you do with’t, that you have been so earnest To have me filch it? Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Moreover, the invasion had claimed to possess a religious character and to have for its object the regaining of an heritage which had been “filched by a perjured usurper.” Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z Talapa nodded that she understood, her eyes roving about the cabin, possibly taking note of the wealth that she had until spring to revel in or filch from. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z It was not without interest, for most of the tombstones had been filched from some Roman or Byzantine ruin, and still bore many traces of their former adornment. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z He would not allow anyone else to rob me; but, of course, he filched things of mine himself. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The software is actually a Trojan horse aimed at filching a user’s credit card information, Apple warns. Apple Warns Users About Mac Defender, Promises Patch 2011-05-25T18:55:35Z "I'll bathe myself with incense, spikenard and myrrh, With genuflexions, delicate viandes and wine, To see, in jest, if from a heart, that loves me dear, I cannot filch away the hommages divine." The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z He circled around and around her, chanting various adages filched from the tenets of his sorceristic faith, all of which compared happily with Belle-Ann's presence. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z He had to lock everything up, and even as it was, never turned his back but she was filching and pilfering. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z If he bears false witness and lies, he will steal money as he filched character; if he covets his neighbor's wife, the time comes when he murders her husband. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Still, the lake is large enough, as yet, to be able to stand a little filching from. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z Lydie, in spite of her influence and her high position, could do so little to punish Gaston, now that by his abominable treachery he had filched every trump card from her. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z At once it gave the startling impression of separate semi-faces filched from two different rawheads and slapped together thus, in smeared, mismated makeshift, that was hideous. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Gregory would not ill replace him, and the opportunity to filch votes from the other side by office should not be lost sight of. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Naturally enough, between the pressure of his literary work and his editorial labours, and the filching of hours from the night,—in order to lengthen the days,—Lever paid the penalty. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z At last it struck him to pretend to sleep, And then the thievish Monkies down would creep And filch the unpleasant trammels quite away. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z He could not filch those papers from Gaston nor prevent de Mortémar from accepting and fulfilling a trust, which had all the appearance of being sacred. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z “Aha! thou art still here then, citizen?” cried Monsieur Destripes, who was inflicting huge gashes upon a ham, filched, no doubt, from the royal buttery. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Already, one-in-four oil dollars from Angola goes missing, while Nigeria's own corruption agency estimates that up to $400bn of oil money has been filched or wasted in the past 50 years. The new scramble for Africa must have the courage to curb corruption 2011-02-21T07:00:10Z Men seized the opportunity to take advantage of his tendencies and youth to filch from him his wealth. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z This master of the art of persuasive perseverance, with his oilcloth bag hidden under the frock of his coat, has filched many a hard-earned dollar from the farmer. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Granted you filched twenty-five napoleons from a big Dutchman, you show as much remorse as though you had taken more than a million. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z In the past, prior to sittings of the legislature, they had heard the ominous stampings of the farmer’s cowhide boots and the mutterings about unrighteous privileges, filched State timber lands, and unequal taxation. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Moreover, things were fitting so tightly with Mr. Loide that anything a clerk could filch would not be worth looking at. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Mason is pointing the finger at Scoopon, based in Melbourne, for stalling Groupon's expansion into Australia, and for trying to filch a piece of its freshly raised capital. Why Groupon Isn't in Australia 2011-01-06T00:31:30Z But a worse thief may meet me, decoy my steps, and by a greater dishonesty, filch ten thousand dollars,—and what then? Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z I wonder if she would like to filch this one from me also? Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z So you filch thousands of dollars out of the public purse, and you are the "Honorable Senator" just as before. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Roofers exchange stories and photographs over social networking Web sites and blogs, chatting in a slang that for reasons that remain obscure is largely filched from English. Moscow Journal: Above the Crowds, but Not Above Lawbreaking 2010-07-19T00:50:00Z Then, in place of the real site, it displays a fake site created to filch account numbers, login names and passwords. New Menace in the War Against Online Crime 2010-07-13T18:09:00Z She filched her sister's library card to extend her online time at the library. Without ready access to computers, students struggle 2009-12-06T05:00:00Z And if they are tied down, someone will filch the fasteners. Steal This Napkin. Feel No Guilt. Come Again. 2010-04-23T13:43:00Z We all know how much they earn – not to mention the extra £60,000 they are accused of filching for mortgages, rent claims and invoices. Cameron's views on legal aid. Popular People only 2010-04-12T18:29:00Z Legally, as Anatole France observed, the starving may not filch even bread. The Moral Ambiguity of Looting 2010-03-06T20:50:00Z He said it was a foreign habit he had filched from a dead man he had been enforced to kill, and that he used it to escape detection of the watch. Idonia: A Romance of Old London For the rest, I deemed myself far too good to steal from poor men, or rob hen-roosts and filch such small deer. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Then, addressing the child, she said, "What do folks mean when they talk of filching?" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Yet no; he would even swear I had filched the money from other articles. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Besides, Shund has made good his fault by restoring what he filched. The Progressionists, and Angela. But what good did the birthright do to the supplanter who bought it, and filched the blessing with it? Misread Passage of Scriptures With these thieves' bones they stole, filched, and plundered each other's goods, which they themselves perchance had stolen, or at least with danger to life and limb, or other grievous trouble and labour, had won. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim It was fair filching by night, as the Major will tell you. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Is it the runaway merchant, the defaulting bank clerk, the filching commissary, that can say shame to one whose crime stands higher in the scale of offence? Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) I had not supposed that Nora indulged in night gear filched from musical comedy. The Book of Susan A Novel "Well," he burst out, "the world is our oyster, and if we shirk opening it we can't hope to filch pearls!" Love's Usuries He may have jestingly promised to fetch her home jewels and rich silk stuffs of the Indies filched from pirates. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day I satisfied myself by making a few simple tests on the broken ends with chemicals filched out of Colonel Craigmiles's laboratory up yonder in the second story of his electric plant. The King of Arcadia I read it through, and found in it the divagations of a most consummate lady-killer, full of panegyrics on the fair one's charms, oceans of nauseous adulation, stuffed out with verses filched from Metastasio. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Yet the fellow used it, he obtained money on the strength of it, for beside the jewelry which he had filched from you, we found several hundred guilders upon his person. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel My object was to filch, surreptitiously as it were, the treasures I coveted, before their valuable crudity could suffer the unconscious adulteration to which such goods are liable at the hands of the professional story-monger. Love's Usuries The two thieves overhear the conversation, and the token which is to be given by the messenger, and after trying in vain to beg a dinner, determine to filch one. A Short History of French Literature Some of them stole my writings, and some filched my discoveries. One Of Them "Who steals my purse, steals trash, But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed." The Bible Story "All I wanted was to be rid of my tyrant, and that Luke's inheritance should not be filched from him." The Heart of a Woman The ease and frequency with which the rewards of honest toil are filched away give insecurity to property and take away much of the stimulus to diligent toil. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Clad in rags, filched from the stall of a Jewish hawker, he went to seek the woman he loved. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels He thus did not conquer, but filch strength. Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century Picking and filching, this cruel King First on all coals that were sea-borne preyed; Next upon such as canal did bring, Then on those by Queen's highway and rail conveyed. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) My consolation was, in being aware that they had filched all worth stealing, and in being indifferent to future depredations. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia He extended the invitation he had just filched. Tangle Hold Because here Labour is scarcer, its wages correspondingly higher, and therefore Landlordism steps in to filch from Labour its hard-won comforts, and once more reduce it to the necessities of existence. Songs of the Army of the Night Sounded like a chemical they might filch from the highschool laboratory. Brown John's Body Nevertheless he cast avaricious glances at Douglass's portion of that comestible and later took advantage of his abstraction to filch the savory morsel. The Song of the Wolf I had escaped their depredations so long, that I fancied there was nothing worth filching in my possession, or innocently supposed there was some kind of freemasonry established between us. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia That she had also filched from him his greatest treasure was, however, unknown to him as yet. Pretty Michal How often have you filched my bait, How often snapped my treacherous line! Second Book of Verse That was all, and without a word Keith followed his deliverer, who strode on before, leaving the rest of the Indians quarrelling over the articles they had filched. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon “That brigand,” said he aside, “is capable of filching all my game.” Devil Stories An Anthology I did not come for the sake of your princely plums; I filch them long before you ever taste them. Eyes Like the Sea The harem lady, whose likeness was filched as she leaned an elbow against a low table, is in a state of repose. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Bidwell and Barbara are wiser and happier than you can be, Herbert, than you from whose hand the map of Parnassus Hill has been filched. The Kempton-Wace Letters She was so much in earnest that the Invalid was actually convinced by her arguments, which, to do her justice, were not original, but were filched from the enthusiastic journal before alluded to. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Amused, she followed all these directions, and poured herself a cup of steaming chocolate, the first meal of her own preparing since childish banquets filched from an indulgent cook. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon I will not filch my happiness, but win it. Eyes Like the Sea Profits based on special economy would exist, as they should, but those which are filched unjustly from any one's pocket would not exist. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy Many of these were also built on land filched from the city. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Mr. Brumley was very vague about those understandings, those mysteries of the exalted that were to filch happiness from the destroying grasp of the crude and jealous. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Here was a man not to be annoyed by the mere filching of his story. Seven Keys to Baldpate Acre by acre his lands were filched from him; and he died in Washington vainly petitioning Congress for restitution. Gold On all sides marble fragments with exquisite reliefs meet the eye, spoils evidently filched from the abandoned city of Paestum across the Salernian Bay and presented to the church by the Norman conquerors of Amalfi. The Naples Riviera But already I had overstepped my resolution, although not feeling desperately contrite about it after the sleight-of-hand way that a declaration of love had been changed into the accusation of filching a corn cake. Wings of the Wind Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most of which offences had a moorland burial, and were never heard of in the courts of justice. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Here Pat McCarrens filch no vote, A Grady eats no mellow pea, A Murphy owns no City Hall, No Jeromes skew at dices' song. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell With the grip once fast upon this power, it becomes not a machinery primarily to serve the people: primarily it becomes an enginery to filch vast unearned increments from the public. The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship She has filched from the systems of philosophy of every land and age, and after bedaubing them with her own gaudy colors, has foisted them upon unthinking mankind as divine decrees and mandates! Carmen Ariza All his possessions have been cunningly, patiently, and valorously extorted from the powers that be, even as Prometheus filched the fire from heaven. Arrows of Freethought There is a story of the manuscript of Harrington's Oceana being filched and given to Cromwell, and the sagacious "usurper" returned it saying, "My government is not to be overturned with paper pellets." Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Again, he enlarged his Empire, at the cost of China, by filching territories as extensive as some of the greatest European countries. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 His nature called for what he found in Bertrand’s studio, and he followed the desire of his heart regardless of anything else, spending all the time he could reasonably filch from his home. The Eye of Dread You do not owe Madam Beaubien the money you are daily filching from her? Carmen Ariza It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It looks as if yet another of our industries has been filched by the Germans. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 Ill content with mortal praise, And haply somewhat overbold, I sought To be as gods be; sought, in fact, to filch Apollo’s bays! The Battle of the Bays Some scamp had filched it from one of the churches and was trying to sell it. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 It was mailed before sunrise, the necessary stamps having been filched from the burglarized bookstore and the price thereof being carefully inserted in the till. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Alas! this laurel, too, has been filched from Holbein's fame. Holbein A number grete of armed men Here all this while do stand, To look that no disorder be Nor any filching hand. Memorials of Old London Volume I She has had ample experience in the past that the flimsiest pretexts have been utilised for the purpose of filching her territory and exacting from her pecuniary fines under the name of indemnities. The Empire of the East His posture was so uncouth and grotesque as to filch from death its rightful dignity, and his face was turned downward. The Roof Tree Some unscrupulous rascal had filched his secret, even to the exact location of his claim, from the aged miner and had got ahead of him in registering it. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer They tempt me to filch away chairs from beneath stout and elderly gentlemen who are about to sit down. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 For example, Sam Cooley, attired in one of Mrs. Burke’s discarded underskirts, filched from the ragbag, with some dried cornstalk gummed on his face, impersonated the famous Bearded Lady from Hoboken. Hepsey Burke If it were a mere case of filching what little he could from Jinnie’s estate before she became of age, it would be an easy matter, but the girl must disappear. Rose O'Paradise I have neither added to nor filched away land. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings A good-for-naught lad may have stolen his nest, or a cat filched his young, or his sons and daughters flown away and left him; but he’ll sing, for all that. Seven Miles to Arden It was his mission to give her back the gifts which had been filched from her by treason. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama You have sent our boy to the war—with money filched by a felony! The Scarlet Feather Beth was the parson, of course, in a white sheet filched from the soiled-clothes bag, and changed for a black shawl for the sermon. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius For though she could filch a lot of money from the papa he wouldn't marry her, and maybe he'll turn stingy in the end, and keep his purse shut. The Brothers Karamazov Her "Conversations on Chemistry," familiarized that science both in England and America, and from it various male writers filched their ideas. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I He found �sop too humorous for his fancy. �sop grinned like a monkey whose nuts have been filched. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama Think of her awful position, to have to confess that her son altered her checks—checks actually drawn in her name—and the money filched from the bank by a dirty trick! The Scarlet Feather Who are these men who have plundered their own people, thrust their hands into the pockets of their fellow-citizens, and filched from them the savings of years? Otherwise Phyllis It was, in fact, the old song “El Travador,” from which has been filched the music set to Mrs Norton’s beautiful lay, “Love not.” The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley In this manner they continued to filch from the poor aboriginal every hour of his work—and keep him to all intents and purposes an abject slave. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt That a man of education, who had himself been a magistrate, should have made this attempt to filch a strip of land off his neighbour might seem unaccountable. India and the Indians Master recluse, you are a pilferer and have filched a life. Apologia Diffidentis It was a beautiful day—a handful of sweet-smelling hours filched by Winter out of the wallet of Spring. Anthony Lyveden Quarrels ensued when predatory tribes sought to filch women or horses. The Vanishing Race There is also a filching spirit abroad, which ought decidedly to be checked. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. He was ashamed that he had permitted the years that had gone to filch so much from him. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Gathering as it moves narrow edges of matter filched from the shores, later on it heaps these up upon its lower banks. The Book of the National Parks I did not filch the fillets from the mummies, I did not use false weights, I did not snare the sacred birds. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Three exquisite stalls, filched from some old cathedral, stood for a settle. Jonah and Co. It’s been done, though, by little, pettifogging shysters, by piking real-estate crooks—thousands of parcels of property scattered all over the United States have been filched in that manner. 'Firebrand' Trevison It was said that he gambled largely; but it was not necessary to add this vice to the other in order to rob him of his property, and filch from him his good name. Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Those of the inward train were filled with machinery and other stores filched from the great Belgian workshops and being transferred to Germany to set up fresh works there. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns One of the—er—'stunts,' as they call their ridiculous ceremonies, included the filching of this vase after dark and its burial somewhere on Bliss Island. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Part of the heritage of youth—its gay and adventurous longing for experience—had been filched from her before she was old enough to know its value. The Fighting Edge Does he go out to filch every ship he meets? The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea From the later chapters it is possible that Paul Heyse filched an idea. The Merry-Go-Round Here we have under our hands the most valuable of the workshops filched from us. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns And therein was shown his craftiness, for he had coaxed secretly from Flanders fifty expert weavers before the canny Dutch knew their talented material was thus being filched away. The Tapestry Book Loafing about a port to filch small things. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He had taken the money from you because he knew that Victor de Marmont, with a strong body of men to help him, would have filched it from you for the benefit of the Corsican. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days But the cloak, which Boreas could not tear away from the traveller's resistance, oftentimes the too genial Phœbus has filched from his amiable spirit of compliance. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Of course he was quite right to filch a few sheets, but it threw rather a lurid light on his character that they should be such grand ones. Miss Mapp Their wealth is not an asset to the world, because it represents nothing they have originated, but only that which they have filched from others less shrewd and unscrupulous. The Rapids Leslie herself was no less anxious to filch his treasure, but Rags had by now acquired a decidedly frolicsome spirit, and the chase he led them was long and weary. The Dragon's Secret Don't I know when he is going to filch! The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Then followed the names of his rival lovers, and a list of the vast sums she had filched from the ducal treasury. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg His own, probably, filched from the pockets of the clothing he had worn when he had entered the house in search of Marishka. The Secret Witness “Then it is very evident that you did not filch the old man’s treasure,” said Katrine. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled This army was very small and if hunger pressed them hard there was the forest, or they might filch from the Indian camp. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods His rivals canvassed, consulted, roamed through the town,—as he could see,—filching votes from him. Ralph the Heir Something of the sanctity of our true vows will be filched away. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg What though his rod had been filched—here he was, without a moment's loss, plunged in a new adventure! Explorers of the Dawn Bishop Newton, who was Dean a hundred and twenty years ago, roundly accused the authorities of filching the decoration funds for William's wars. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch As Idleness is the great Source of Theft, picking and filching, the natural Punishment of at least all smaller Criminals, seems to be hard Labour for Life, or Years. A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 They could not stand by and see it filched from them. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War In our own menagerie, many a fair lady has been robbed of the artificial flower which adorned her bonnet, by the nimble, filching tongue of the object of her admiration. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 With the addition of four crullers and a slab of cold bread pudding filched from the pantry, our preparations were now complete. Explorers of the Dawn In every war France used neutral ships in order to get supplies; and the neutrals themselves sought to filch trade from British merchants. William Pitt and the Great War Can one filch our self-respect and escape free? Mary, Mary God is not a careless owner who leaves His treasures to be blown by every wind, or filched by every petty robber. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John He filched the answers to his sums out of the “Key,” and copied his Caesar out of the “crib.” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story You are to receive the money, and share it with the scoundrel who intends to filch it from me. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World But then it is impossible that Marya, the White Swan, was a mere ghost filched from the dead and eager to return. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology If it did, then his hand struck or his cunning filched, careless of right or privileges. The Justice of the King He watched the departing army—paddlers sitting on swathes of filched spears. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country It may be filched from a man without any act of his own by the act of another, and he may not be aware till informed that the fatal loss has been incurred. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The nest was composed of cotton and wool which they filched from a bed in one of the chambers, and it was always a mystery how they got into the room to obtain it. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers The prize had been filched from Mr. Snow, one of whose diversions was listening for a hen to cackle. The Man from the Bitter Roots Unnoticed for months, it had crept northwestward, filching precious mile after mile of the hostile foothold. Greener Than You Think We gave them to you,—or ye filched them from us,—I scarcely know which. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century He preferred cigars, a habit he'd acquired from the days when he'd filched them from his father's cigar case, but his mental picture of the fearless and alert young FBI agent didn't include a cigar. That Sweet Little Old Lady His father, Roger Sterne, was one of those luckless persons who seem to be the especial sport of a malicious destiny, in whose hands nothing prospers, from whose hands thievish Fortune filches all opportunities. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Sirs, He plays you ’gainst each other as the eagle Sets ospreys in contention over prey That he may filch the prize! Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet His stealth was too open, his filching was like An vnskilfull singer, he kept not time. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] She remembered Rebekah, and with the cunning of a second Rebekah she filched a world's blessing for her baby. Orley Farm The General resolved, therefore, to filch it from its native king and annex it to the Crown of Castile. The Philippine Islands His bowpot's made up, I declare, Half of flowers he's filched from my ground! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 Principal result of manœuvre, beyond giving fillip to majority, is that a day will be filched from meagre holidays, and House must needs sit on Thursday. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 "I dare not trust such news, even to the cipher, which the international gang thought they had filched, and which they did not get," replied Mr. Caine. Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty In his eagerness and greed he suspected nothing, but that on some pretext or other they were trying to filch from him his dues. In Kings' Byways Perfectly honestly, he preferred cigars, a habit he'd acquired from the days when he'd filched them from his father's cigar- case. Brain Twister She shall be our queen, instead of the one that hath been filched away. Slain By The Doones He had forgotten his dinner, but relying on his ability to filch something, he walked home with a light heart He marched innocently through the open door of the shop. Despair's Last Journey In consequence the glory and financial benefit of what they did was often filched from them. Steve and the Steam Engine Our greatest curse to-day is the rum-shop, kept far too often by men of the developed and forward race to filch from us our hard earnings, and give us shame and misery in return. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time How often have priceless gems been filched from Oriental potentates! The Paternoster Ruby The cruelest punishment of all was to lie there half starved and hear them vulgarly smacking their lips over the warmed-up remains of a chicken undoubtedly filched from a countryside barnyard. The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service There grew, too, a moral certitude that from the ten minutes' lawful rest in each hour at least five minutes was being filched. The Long Roll On many claims where the owners were known to be unsuspicious, men would work for small wages because of the gold they were able to filch. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance "The Complete Angler" would be a title they might filch with perfect honor and call their own. April's Lady A Novel I could filch a handkerchief as soon as I was high enough to reach a pocket, and was declared to be a most promising child. The King's Own The truth was that Franklin's duty was to get from France just as much aid, direct and indirect, as could be either begged or filched from her. Benjamin Franklin I can’t tell you how hurt and sorry I felt to-night when I believed you to be mixed up with that contemptible bit of filching. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden Here the men, fresh from their day's work, the mud of the claim hardly dry on their boot-tops, were buying wine with nuggets they had filched from sluice-box, dump and drift. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Their afternoon for games, their only fair afternoon in the desert of the week, to be filched from them and used against them for such an odious purpose as a Bible class! Clayhanger “Silence, sir,—‘But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that—of that—’” “Rob you of what, sar?” The King's Own Mr Durfy obeyed, glad enough to turn the conversation from the miscarriage of his last attempt to filch his employers’ telegrams for the benefit of his betting friends’ and his own pocket. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The world has all our banners now, And filched our watchwords for its own. The New Morning Poems Animals in menageries are sometimes great enemies to the milliner's art; giraffes have been known to filch the flowers adorning a bonnet, and we once saw a lady miserably oppressed by monkeys. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Selvaggia filched another handful of sugar and crumbs, and twiddled her sonnet while she wondered what on earth she should do with it. Little Novels of Italy He was looking for some clue—what he knew not—which would enable him to explain to his own satisfaction the mystery of the filched pistol. The Daffodil Mystery Born in the morning, he fabricated a lyre, and played on it by noon; and, before night, filched from Apollo his cattle. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Old rights of pasture were being curtailed, and others, notably those of hunting and fishing, had in most manors been completely filched away. German Culture Past and Present By traffic in 'traditions' and sacrifices have their priests grown rich filching from the poor. The Coming of the King It burned me like no money I ever filched did; it burned me inside and out and I slung it inter the river. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Have a care the pa-� is not filched. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Who does not know that the gods say such words as their thievish priests filch from them. The Lion's Brood After a little, the mother discovered it and filched it, and let me see it; then told Susy what she had done, and how pleased I was, and how proud. Chapters from My Autobiography He held the old creed-formulas through which Wilson and Mather declared their faith, yet warmed them into ruddy life by whatever fire the last transcendental Prometheus or Comte-devoted scientist filched from aërial or material heaven. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 They ran over us in the dugouts at night, and filched cheese and crackers right through the heavy waterproofed covering of our haversacks. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army He knew, or pretended to know, the precise date when Napoleon III. filched Nice and Savoy from reluctant Italy as the price of help against the hated Austrians. My Friend the Chauffeur "He's had plenty of opportunity to filch stationery or almost anything he wants, hanging around my offices, as he does—an idler—" But Dundee was in a hurry. Murder at Bridge Among tailors, this phrase "to cabbage" is a cant saying which means to filch the cloth when cutting out for a customer. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure There they defied the law and the devil, trafficking in spoils filched from honest merchantmen whose crews had walked the plank. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 He inly stormed and waxed more furious Than for the fire filched by Prometheus, And thrusts him down from heaven. Hero and Leander Morocco has been made the ward of the hand that gripped it, which but recently filched two outlying provinces, Figig and T��t. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond "I'd like to make notes on your story," and he drew from a coat pocket a shorthand book, hastily filched from Penny's own tidy desk. Murder at Bridge I was the man with his hands in his pockets who saw the thing steadily and saw it whole—to filch a windy phrase. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story For him there were no longer golden hours which it were a sin for others to filch from him. The Mayor of Warwick No! the same mystery surrounds the fate of the information filched from the drugged brain of 'M. Blank.' The Golden Scorpion Finally they got a start, filched of all they had. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir All these declamations reduce themselves to proving that a robber must never either eat the dinner he has taken, or wear the coat he has pilfered, or adorn himself with the ring he has filched. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary And one of those I am sure he filched from an English wit, and redressed it for his purposes. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Bergson has done much to restore to intuition the rights which were being filched or wrenched from it. Nature Mysticism On the other hand, what can have been filched from him before his death? The Golden Scorpion "He rushes in where an angel has feared to tread, and filches from me my reward!" King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Petty thieving is called pilfering or filching; stealing on a large scale usually has less dishonorable qualificatives. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals There were some eggs and a filch of bacon which they had brought from Winnipeg. The Land of Promise "I filched it from your table through the open window, Grame." The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Though it passed us by No earthly power can filch that dazzling glow From memory's eye, that instant's shine and show. A Woman's Love Letters Pardieu! 'tis a happy return to beat devils and then have all your own little lies come roosting home like imps that filch the victory! Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Thus the state of soul of one who filches after this fashion is not sensibly affected by his arriving at a notable sum of injustice in the aggregate. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals The pantomime runs on merrily enough; but when once Harlequin lifts his vizor, Columbine disappears, the jest is frozen on the Clown's lips, and the hand of the filching Pantaloon is arrested in the act. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country I hear her sleek betrayer, and detect their wretched offspring as he first essays to filch a handkerchief or a purse. Tales of the Chesapeake The populace was proud at robbing the aristocracy of its language, even to turn it against them; but whilst it filched, it soiled it. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution It would be of interest, Petrie, to learn what State secrets have been filched from the brains of habitues of this den, and interesting to know from what unsuspected spy-hole Fu-Manchu views his nightly catch. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor He saw the implacable resentment of this tender girl who, her married life long, had loathed the captain that had invaded the citadel of her soul, and conqueror-like had filched her virgin zone. Visionaries And you know that he did not talk as mildly as he does in the church, when he found Frank and yourself quietly filching a few of his peaches through the orchard fence. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons We knew one whose pride was a collection of fireplace cranes so filched. If You're Going to Live in the Country I was pained to find her in a miserable hovel, surrounded by a crew of selfish, ignorant, lazy and degraded women, who were ready to filch the last farthing from the poor, helpless invalid. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 That, in fact, was what Major Cowper had said—that I had dropped into their ship near Port Royal Heads, and had afterwards gone away with the pirates who had filched his wife's rings. Romance This was a treasure filched from the garden of the Dalai Lama. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul He held the secret of a platinum find, and corrupt officials wished to filch it from him. Berry And Co. The top box was covered with a rough, clean towel, evidently filched from the kitchen, and this piece of extra refinement struck me as actually touching. The Motor Maid The greatest advantage is, that the right to an invention is so simply, cheaply, and easily secured, that there is no filching or ill-feeling. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 "Jackie," he said agitatedly, as if he were afraid of offending me, "he said you had filched his wife's rings." Romance How could she give up the treasure she had filched for herself? The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Then how deliberately he measured again with his long arms, with all the appearance of justice, whilst he was filching off inches at once! Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government He had come out of the dark and raided the directorate of a giant corporation, gathering into his strong hands reins that the world believed to be held beyond the possibility of filching. Destiny "Have you ever considered what you were likely to encounter if you undertook to filch the Crown?" The Colonel of the Red Huzzars I would die happy if I knew I had helped to detach from you one island—one little island of all the earth you have filched away, stolen, taken by force, got by lying.... Romance The master had gone bankrupt, the American had filched away his trade. A Prince of Sinners She is living behind a dingy little shop with her husband, and his horrible old father, who drinks whatever he can filch from the till. Hetty Wesley The land has been filched from the people to enrich the brainless favorites and the courtesans of kings, and entailed upon their progeny generation after generation. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Immense sums were thus filched from the poor and ignorant, and fortunes accumulated by those who had themselves been poor enough before. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Carlos, however, used to declare with affectionate cynicism that the arm had been broken by the cudgel of a Polish peasant while Castro was trying to filch a pig from a stable.... Romance Name, deed without a, 55. --, what's in a, 76. --, filches from me my good, 92. --, mark the marble with his, 144. --, at which the world grew pale, 165. --, the magic of a 214. Familiar Quotations One enters to some fine well-heads and other sculpture, not very different from the stock-in-trade of the ordinary dealer in antiquity who has filched a palace. A Wanderer in Venice The piratical old plagiarist of a vehicle was about to begin filching from another source. Fifth Avenue He gave what he filched to the others, and Musa shared the dainties they bought with the stolen property. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 They were fined terrible sums; they had to give back sums equal to the spoil they had filched from others. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot No one had filched my honour—I had sold it to a good man, but yet without enriching him, while in the loss of it I knew myself poor indeed. Poison Island In one he found a Canada jay that had tried to filch the bait. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale I perched myself like a sacred hawk at the mouth of the valley and filched thy likeness. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Not long ago, the Whites by force and trick, filched India from the Mahomedans. Indian Unrest If she wants to filch money from me for foul purposes, she will find she has come to the wrong man. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot He who filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.' Poison Island He really told such wonderful things—he gave her to-night the full story of her silver beads, and how they had been filched from an ancient temple—and he had bought them from the thief. The Gay Cockade They lived here, I am convinced, and fed upon the food offerings they filched from the tombs. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Shall this man filch our wits from us With his furor poeticus? The Glugs of Gosh He could not visit it in a moment of haste or fright, and filch a piece away as he would. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot There thou mayst filch and revel; all may yield Some secret profit to thy sharking hand. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 He magnified his wrongdoing to heroic proportions endeavoring to filch some sentimental comfort from the romantic. Sundown Slim I shall perch myself there like a sacred hawk and filch her likeness. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There are two great risks in reading sermon books—a tendency to imitate the style and a temptation to filch the jewels. The Young Priest's Keepsake All heard and many treasured up those words, and hence the tradition always in men's mouths that the treasure of Trevlyn was filched by the gipsy folks in fulfilment of that curse. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Another occult part of this profound mystery, besides vapouring, consisted, it seems, in filching. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 How many times have you filched the Chevalier of his crowns by the use of clogged dice? The Grey Cloak But all the robbery, all the spoliation, all the legal and illegal filching, has been on their side.... Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 I have not added to or filched away land. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians But we filch not gold nor goods from the poor, the thrifty, the sons of toil; nay, there be times when we restore to these what has been drained from them by injustice and tyranny. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot He had held in his hand a tangible clue to that mystery which had so perplexed him—and had allowed it to be filched away before he could recognise it and shape his course accordingly. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Good Paul, did you think that I would trade upon your love, to filch from you the remains of that poor fortune which is all you have left of the world's goods? In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young Again he was the sole passenger and he called to the old driver, to whom nothing at all seemed to have happened because of his filching fruit. Bunker Bean The documents have been filched from their august chambers, and the shrine is desecrated. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Even were it thought that the gold and silver had been hid, who would have such skill as to guess the spot, and go and filch it thence? The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot But I trow he will have naught to do with it an it has been filched away from the library without the reverend prior's permission. The Secret Chamber at Chad What may not happen to a castle left undefended; what may not be filched from coffers left unlocked? His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality It is the one sole ecstatic phase of life, the solitary romance stealing in once, and but once, amidst the world's hard realities; the "fire filched for us from heaven." Verner's Pride I did not filch property from an inheritance. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians A generation had well-nigh passed since that treasure had been filched from the grasp of the Trevlyns. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot At your solicitation, the boundaries of your property were changed, and large slips of land filched from another, to be given to you. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest A ladder I have filched and thro' the streets Borne it, on shoulders little used to weight. Emblems Of Love He would gather all the bedding in a pile, lie upon it and guard every shred jealously, striking and smashing any implement of wood or iron thrust into the cage to filch his treasure. Bears I Have Met—and Others Texas and Upper California, the Philippines and Porto Rico, were annexed forcibly; New Mexico, Alaska, and Louisiana were bought; Florida was acquired by treaty; Maine filched from Canada. Outspoken Essays The little gamblers used cards and roulette wheels and filched the weekly wage of the workers. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Dalberg ever had scorned her; Harleston had looked with favour, wavered, was about to yield, when another—outwardly her alter ego, save only in the colour of her hair—appeared and filched him from her. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse I had filched a beam of Siss's star. Prose Fancies Winifred now, however, particularly wished to show her companion that she bore no animosity for the filched commission, therefore she became loquacious. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl His first act in Normandy, after new coronation, was to besiege the border castles which the French had filched in his absence. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay It's being filched by these foreigners—his birthright. The Man in the Twilight Another woman had filched him from her—filched him forever from her, she knew. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse It has actually been found necessary to forbid the construction of limekilns nearer than two miles from any ancient ruins, in order to remove the temptation for the filching of stones. Vanishing England Slowly they came up and drew attention to themselves, silently filching it from Broadway's emblems of business success. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl I was filled with rage against the wretch who had robbed me of a decent meal, and would now filch from me a night's rest. The Princess Passes Death to the hand That filches the land! McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 It was Ruth's idea, filched from the transformation scene in her moving picture scenario. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund When they got tired of that building they filched part of the old grammar school from the boys, making an upper storey, wherein they held their council meetings. Vanishing England To have filched so important a job from the Germans themselves shows that he must have had ability. African Camp Fires Was there a wizened shrub, a starveling bough, A fleecy thistle filched from by the wind, A weed, Pan's trampling hoof would disallow? The Poetry Of Robert Browning And this tidy sum was being filched from the purse of Charlotte Lee Weyland, who worked for her living at an honorarium of $75 a month. Queed And instead of looking out of the window I had been reading an American magazine, filched from the smoking-room, which was one year old! The Congo and Coasts of Africa No watchful eye had been directed upon the claws that grabbed and clung, the fingers that filched and retained. Flames For, when from a thousand bushels of beans you filch one, the loss in that case to me is less, but not your villainy. The Works of Horace She had, too, a desire to know just how many of those weird stories he told were filched from Cap'n Abe's accumulation of nautical literature. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper The efforts of its leaders were directed to other things than plans for taxing oysters or filching the gains of free negroes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 I hate usury, nor care I to earn money for others to filch from me. The Sign of the Red Cross He filched from me my honor, but left me life that I might taste death in life. Sir Mortimer It turned out afterwards that the toen had planned this little reconnoitring expedition on his own account, and on the chance perhaps of filching a musket or two. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Ye are but dust; belike the dust of beggars; for on this bed, paupers may lie down with kings, and filch their skulls. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I This Silver Phil, it seems, in a sperit of avarice, equips himse'f with a copper—little wooden checker, is what this copper is—one he's done filched from Cherokee the day prior. Wolfville Nights Your sightlessness shall give those who owe you gratitude and love, opportunity to filch your gold; and, lastly, fire shall rob you of your books, and well-nigh all your treasures. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors It is four years since I jumped my last jump—filched my last oyster—boiled my last sausage—and set in for retirement. A History of Pantomime Some sharper would soon make away with him; but it will be a clever man who filches him from me! Tom Tufton's Travels But it soon became clear that there were men who had not taken the filching of their national independence lightly. Korea's Fight for Freedom And he fears to leave it night or day, lest some stealthy hand filch away the ill-gotten gain. In the Days of Chivalry On the mountain slope of Otsego's shore, and less than two miles from Cooperstown, lay his small farm belted with woodland, from which he had filched it in true pioneer fashion. James Fenimore Cooper |
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