"Thieve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here solely to make good his word, to take away that cylinder, could he find it, and to return it to the girl ... not to thieve.... ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... na, whiles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen icker in a thrave[35] 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... sigh For the outside leagues of liberty, Where Art, sweet lark, translates the sky Into a heavenly melody. 'Each day, all day' (these poor folks say), 'In the same old year-long, drear-long way, We weave in the mills and heave in the kilns, We sieve mine-meshes under the hills, And thieve much gold from the Devil's bank tills, To relieve, O God, what manner of ills? — The beasts, they hunger, and eat, and die; And so do we, and the world's a sty; Hush, fellow-swine: why nuzzle and cry? "Swinehood hath no remedy" Say many ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier |
