| 单词 | pilferer |
| 例句 | In an “Arab world” museum, the presence here of a hagiographic image of Napoleon, colonialist invader of Islamic North Africa and pilferer of non-Western art, is ripe with political irony. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z She missed a smaller fraudulent purchase until her card pilferer moved onto bigger buys. I was hit with $1,300 in credit card fraud. Here’s how to cut your risk. 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z He wrote a letter to the American Medical Association, proclaiming that “some unconscionable scientific pilferer is trying to steal my entire life.” Raymond Damadian, Creator of the First M.R.I. Scanner, Dies at 86 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z After the lease expired, the association managed to get the city to agree to buy and install new public garbage cans designed to keep trash in and pilferers out. San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z They are “maximizing retrieval of their scattered food caches while minimizing loss to pilferers,” the 2017 study said. A squirrel hid thousands of walnuts under the hood of a man’s truck. It wasn’t the first time. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z If the peanut was buried — as opposed to eaten right away — a human “designated pilferer” would rush over and dig it up. Perspective | Kicking off Squirrel Week with a look at how these furry creatures lie 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z A few of these pilferers were sent to jail with light sentences, and the Department of Antiquities hired the rest to carry on the search. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Over the years, alleged political pilferers leverage their influence to support an opposition that can eventually throw out their cases, or grant pardons, or return them to power as needed allies. Rodrigo Duterte Is Going to Get Away With Murder 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z "Thank God, there are few thieves or pilferers within the circle of my acquaintance, which is not small." The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z They are robbers and pilferers, and though they receive, or did receive, an allowance raised by a tax on the general community, they wring what they please out of the people among whom they live. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Although Dr. Morton was a thief, a pilferer of libraries and collectors, he committed a far greater crime, for which it is impossible to forgive him. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z In this world, this house of pilferers, it is useless to count upon a friend. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Out of frustration, larger companies like Darling have started hiring lawyers to press civil charges against pilferers in a bid to recoup losses. Restaurants? Used Fryer Oil Attracting Thieves 2012-01-07T19:07:19Z They deserve an abler pen than mine to extol their merits and to exalt them as they deserve above the swarm of pilferers, and sham patriots, who preceded and succeeded them. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The whole school had gone distracted, but the pilferer was too clever to be caught. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z Sometimes these clever pilferers copy matter as they find it, particularly when its source is one not likely to be discovered. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The report also neglects to explain why the pilferers seem to prefer the U.S., but the country’s lack an extradition agreement with China is almost certainly a factor. Report: Corrupt Chinese Officials Take $123 Billion Overseas 2011-06-16T11:46:06Z Before he had completed his eighteenth year he deserted, joined a troop of fortune-telling gipsies, whom he left to try his fortune with a regular pilferer, and finally, engaged himself to a rope-dancer. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z She had an idea that Rabbit was the pilferer, for she had heard that he was a great thief, but she was not very sure. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z It was incumbent on us to explain that we were no pilferers, and this was no easy matter. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The police arrived quickly and the posh pilferer had already disappeared, another indication that he knew what he was after, Rouches said. Oregon thief with "good taste" nips $2,300 cognac 2011-04-04T23:10:31Z A rule of thumb: "If the clutter is getting in the way of job effectiveness, then it is a problem."If you answered mostly C's...You're a petty pilferer. Quiz: Are You an Office Hoarder? 2011-03-17T21:00:00Z Before he had completed his eighteenth year he deserted, joined a troop of fortune-telling gipsies, whom he left to try his fortune with a regular pilferer, and finally engaged himself to a rope-dancer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z You have seen the companions of both gather around the spot, deprive the despoiler of its ill-gotten prize, restore the crumb to its lawful possessor, and punish the would-be pilferer. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z With my hosen I had to give up my purse full of money, which I had hid there three hours before, and thus had preserved from the first pilferers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The human pilferers are not to be so easily dealt with. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology For a long moment our fate hung in the balance, while the enraged pilferers gripped their weapons and glared at us with murderous hate. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Reckless of the consequences, in the blind rage which choked him, Marcel reached the pilferers of his canoe before they realized that he was on them. The Whelps of the Wolf During the season of cropping, the payment of a small gratuity to the village policeman would insure the allotment being well watched, and if pilferers were detected they should invariably be prosecuted. The Hills and the Vale For my parsonage house had been filled with all kinds of furniture left by noblemen and magistrates in their flight; and although pilferers had been there, there was enough still left. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Another ingenious variety of locks was contrived to grab and hold the fingers of pilferers. The Annals of Willenhall Most small packmen were then, in some measure, what Wilson says they were generally esteemed to be—peddling pilferers, and insignificant swindlers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) There is nothing out there to attract pilferers. A Monk of Cruta The legs and hands are cut off pilferers, heads are cut off sometimes and preserved in salt and camphor, and the bastinado is an ordinary punishment for lesser crimes. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) When the pilferers had sufficiently pillaged the church of clothes and linen, they left the town, and would carry my wife with them whether she would or no. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. It was advisable, however, to inform the proprietor of the hotel that the Earl’s denunciation of Dale as a pilferer of luggage was based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts. Cynthia's Chauffeur There were some handsome sleeve-buttons and a scarf-pin or two in another drawer, but these had not been touched,—the pilferer had been interrupted too soon. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Have you, a knight, sunk so low as to behave like a common pilferer? Legends & Romances of Brittany To a knot of such learned pilferers our poet certainly belonged; and by turning over a few more of M. Longnon’s 154 negatives, we shall get a clear idea of their character and doings. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) “That might be a good idea, Officer––I’ll think it over,” the pilferer thanked him. Officer 666 For the truth is, the majority of those who "live on the river," as the phrase goes, have the reputation of being pilferers; farmers tell sad tales of despoiled chicken-roosts and vegetable gardens. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Oh American people! how those foul political pilferers dice for thy blood and thy destinies! Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 They are usually accounted pilferers, cheats, faithless, and abandoned to dissoluteness. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies The yarn goes that you’re a forger in disguise, a counterfeiter of our sovereign’s sacred image and all that, the pilferer of Her Majesty’s mails, a dangerous criminal masquerading as a goldsmith.” The Tale of Timber Town I am less of a pilferer now than formerly. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Master recluse, you are a pilferer and have filched a life. Apologia Diffidentis In allusion to the usurper procuring the crown as a common pilferer or thief, and not by open villainy that carried danger with it. Hamlet The wreck is a gold mine for pilferers. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin All these petty pilferers may possibly have regarded the treasure as nature's own provision, like the flowers, but one visitor to his neighbor's magazine certainly knew better. Little Brothers of the Air Again Theodora and I watched for the pilferer, and captured the cunning creature in the act. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine No, they seem to be fairly prosaic pilferers. The Secret House He was no pilferer, and scorned to carry off so mean a booty. American Sketches 1908 Maybe through us pilferers or borrowers, Heaven takes care of the seeds of knowledge and wisdom from age to age. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 Abandoning their property, the able-bodied had fled in panic fear, leaving the old, the sick, and the infants to perish in the snow, and their cherished effects to the hands of Bulgarian pilferers. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality On the stolen article being taken from under the pilferer’s shoulder-patch of seal-skin, where he had dexterously secreted it, he breaks out into a laugh, pretending to pass it off as a joke. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure It should enable an Apiarian who lives in the neighborhood of human pilferers, to lock up the precious contents of his hives, in some cheap, simple and convenient way. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual You are the bloody prototype of all the arselickers, panders, arsonists, kidnapers, cutthroats, pickpockets, abortionists, pilferers, cheats, forgers, sneakthieves, sharpers and blackmailers since Jacob swindled his brother. Greener Than You Think Douglas Jerrold's caustic pen had full play in his all-round denunciation of the pilferers, and in Punch's name he let fly at big game. The History of "Punch" To the pleasantry of my greeting, they replied with the true pilferer's humor; the free baron had ordered every one searched. Under the Rose In a trice it is emptied—not a scrap being left by the prowling pilferers. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure The annals of the war are not free from small pilferers and vicious imbeciles; but high above the tableau they form, this warrior has perched himself upon a pinnacle—let us hope—unattainable again! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death No resistance was made, until one of the pilferers tried to tear from Bainbridge an ivory miniature of his young and beautiful wife. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 “These mean pilferers have become a perfect pest at the diggin’s, an’ we intend to stop their little game, we do, by stoppin’ their windpipes when we catch them. Twice Bought Maxwell is an excellent fellow, and he will be very useful to us in making our purchases, as he knows the people and the country; and our baggage will be safe from all pilferers.” The Mission; or Scenes in Africa It may be not all have re-entered the valley—only a party sent back to bring on the pilferer, who has been missed upon the march. The Lone Ranche Since those fellows were sure to have the same trouble as white pilferers in disposing of their stolen stock, they were fond of stampeding the cattle when not under the eyes of their caretakers. Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) Mrs. Parlin washed the little pilferer's face and hands, took her in her lap, and tried to feel her way through the cotton wool to the tiny conscience. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway So multitudes have been forgot— But drones or dunces, good for naught; Like clinging parasites or burrs Taking from others all they dared, Yet little they for others cared Except as pilferers. Poems Vol. IV I think, however, that these precautions are due not so much to a fear of pilferers as to a feeling of the instability of conditions in a country that has always been subject to turmoil. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The value of these might not be apparent to the casual pilferer. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel If he were a dockyard pilferer, it was a nuisance, and a complication in my affairs, but I might pull through the difficulty with presence of mind. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys It was a very plain little room in which Frank sat, and seemed designed, on purpose, to furnish no temptation to pilferers. None Other Gods When a venturous spirit undertook to search the old man's habitation during his absence, a store of miscellaneous objects came to light, which revealed the hitherto unknown pilferer. Up in Ardmuirland A petty pilferer was a loafer, but in a very short time all of the tribe of loungers in the sun, and disreputable pickers up of unconsidered trifles, now known as bummers, were called loafers. The English Gipsies and Their Language To glory some advance a lying claim, Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame: Their front supplies what their ambition lacks; They know a thousand lords, behind their backs. English Satires It was not possible that this was a bad man, a stealer of children, a pilferer of old men's cupboards. Nautilus They were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies, whom, in truth, they nearly resembled. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs He acknowledged to himself that he would steal one if he got the chance, despite his innate hatred of all pilferers. In Old Kentucky Uncovenanted pilferers, in for a week, regard him with respect and envy. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series As it happened, the hombre in charge was looking into a mirror cunningly placed for the guarding of stock from pilferers, and he saw Starr steal the paper. Starr, of the Desert It was too happy a mot not to have been stolen by divers pilferers of such articles, and adapted to other persons and other occasions. What I Remember, Volume 2 Of all the beings self-delivered to the rule of unscrupulous malignity, with whom it has been my fate to come professionally in contact, I never knew one so utterly fiendish as this discomfited pilferer. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney But, in spite of the hazards to which such disclosures might expose his fortunes, the captain would have preferred that the black men should have been pilferers than that other men should have been discoverers. The Adventures of Captain Horn As a child he was an arrant pilferer, stealing milk and butter from every house, while as a youth he has trifled with other men's wives. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry The entrances to bee-hives are straightened, to prevent the access of wasps and other pilferers. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Array'd in matchless beauty, Devon's fair In Fox's favour takes a zealous part; But, oh! where'er the pilferer comes beware, She supplicates a vote, and steals a heart. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 Without doubt the pilferer had thwarted her again. Polly and the Princess If there were any danger now, it was in the daytime, when some stray Rackbirds might come back, or the pilferer of the mound might return with companions. The Adventures of Captain Horn Having watched for the pilferers in vain by day, the proprietor resolved to mount guard by night, and accordingly ambushed himself in the invaded territory. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The pilferer becomes a successful tradesman in a large and questionable way; the tippler finds himself sober and attended by the daughter of his heart's desire; various married folk get re-sorted; and so forth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Here, Simon, put these pilferers out, shove 'em into the road, out with 'em! Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty To a knot of such learned pilferers our poet certainly belonged; and by turning over a few more of M. Longnon's negatives, we shall get a clear idea of their character and doings. Familiar Studies of Men and Books An organized gang of boy pilferers for the purpose of entering stores had a cache, where the stolen goods were brought together. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Under ordinary circumstances he would merely have had to drive away feathered pilferers, such as guillemots or puffins, from his sorrel and scurvy grass. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Doctor Kerner thought the milky juice in milkweed plants, especially abundant in the uppermost leaves and stems, serves to protect the flowers from useless crawling pilferers. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Treherne's eye took in everything, and saw at once in the unusually late arrival of the mail a pretext for discovering the pilferer of the note. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story I would like best of all to see Quinola, that cursed pilferer of jewels, in durance. The Resources of Quinola Ill plays the pilferer the bigger thief; One's self one ought to know;--in brief, Example is a dangerous lure; Death strikes the gnat, where flies the wasp secure. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes Said he: "With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers." Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders They found the hovel nearly in ruins; for pilferers had taken such pieces as they could strip off for firewood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 For him, therefore, a much longer term of restraint is necessary than in the case of mere pilferers, whose thefts, although causing loss and vexation, are not productive of personal injury. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) But however busy the harvester may be, he is not slow to descry the pilferers below, and instantly leaves his work to drive them away. The Mountains of California Passing along the right-hand gallery, he overtook a pilferer with a tarbousche full of glass cubes picked from one of the mosaic pictures. The Prince of India — Volume 02 There was another innovation, adopted in the interests of this nest of shameless pilferers, who throve under the Duke's protection. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Now every body seems -obliged to take as much care of their writing desks as of their trinkets or purses,-for thieves be abroad of more descriptions than belong to the penniless pilferers. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 There is a solidarity in the use of soap, and every cringing beggar, idler, liar and pilferer flourished for her under the shadow of the great Francisan indifference to it. Italian Hours “Who is it?” whispered the pilferer, after the theft. Janice Meredith Because men butchered one another in the name of Equality, there were none the fewer among the Fraternity of thieves and petty pilferers, of ordinary cut-throats and public wantons. I Will Repay Sidwell could tell him of secret spots where the wood-sorrel made haste to flower, or where the white violet breathed its fragrance in security from common pilferers. Born in Exile No offence; I mean a pilferer on a large scale. Dear Brutus Howe, likewise, cannot conquer where we have no army to oppose, therefore any such removals in him are mean and cowardly, and reduces Britain to a common pilferer. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis When they have retired, the flowers close to protect nectar and pollen from useless pilferers. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors That noble discourse had been neglected by the generation to which it was addressed, had sunk into oblivion, and was at the mercy of every pilferer. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Every year she lived she raged more furiously at the tricks she saw played by her mother and every one who surrounded her; the very servants were greater liars and pilferers than any other servants. T. Tembarom The whole crew of pilferers and oppressors from whom he had rescued Bengal persecuted him with the implacable rancour which belongs to such abject natures. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 They were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gipsies, whom in truth they nearly resembled. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 At night and during cloudy, stormy weather, when their benefactors are not flying, the claytonias economically close their petals to protect nectar and pollen from rain and pilferers. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Calling you my man of business seemed to give that old pilferer a few ideas. The Lesser Bourgeoisie What makes so many pilferers and felons, But such fond baits that foolish people lay To tempt the needy miserable wretch? Sir Thomas More Had the chisel of Praxiteles been employed to produce this image, it could not more vividly bring to the minds of the merry group the idea of a pilferer of their favorite mondamin. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "What have you done with my piece of writing paper, you pilferer?" Dead Souls Lacking the quantity of sticky milky juice which protects that plant from crawling pilferers, the butterfly-weed suffers outrageous robberies from black ants. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Ants, the worst pilferers of nectar extant, find the hairy stem of the whorled milkweed, as well as its sticky juice, most discouraging, if not fatal, obstacles to climbing. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors What makes so many pilferers and felons, But these fond baits that foolish people lay To tempt the needy miserable wretch? Sir Thomas More But saucy bumblebees, undutiful pilferers from the purple avens, rarely visit blossoms so inconspicuous. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Even when ants - the worst pilferers extant - succeed in entering, they cannot reach the nectar, owing to the hairy stockade bordering the groove where it runs. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Half the involucre bends downward to protect the flower from crawling pilferers, half stands erect to play the role for the community of florets within that the calyx does for individual blossoms. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Dr. Kerner thought the milky juice in milkweed plants, especially abundant in the uppermost leaves and stems, serves to protect the flowers from useless crawling pilferers. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Again we see that, however insignificantly small nectar-bearing flowers may be, they are somehow protected from crawling pilferers; in this case by the commonly employed sticky hairs in which ants' feet become ensnared. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors On the removal of his pressure, the floret springs back to its closed condition, to protect the precious nectar and pollen from rain and pilferers. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Who has tested this statement about the guilty little pilferers on our side of the Atlantic? Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors These provide a free lunch of sweets in the glands of their leaves to satisfy pilferers, which then seek no farther, leaving the flowers to winged insects that are at once despoilers and benefactors. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The yellow palate, which partially guards the entrance to the nectary from pilferers, of course serves also as a pathfinder to the long-tongued bees. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors |
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