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"Thievery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sacrificing in Druidical rites, there had been art and culture here such as has never been surpassed. India, of splendid pageants, of brave warriors and gallant kings! Alas, how the mighty had fallen! About her, penury, meanness, hypocrisy, uncleanliness, thievery and unbridled passions. . . . What was that? Her heart missed a beat. That pad-pad; that ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath
... being 6d. for registering and 3d. for an enquiry. There are a number of respectable offices of this kind now, but it cannot be hidden that there have been establishments so called which have been little better than dens of thievery, the proprietors caring only to net all the half-crowns and eighteen-pences they could extract from the poor people who were foolish enough ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell |
Words linked to "Thievery" : theft, rustling, grand larceny, thieve, defalcation, robbery, peculation, grand theft, felony, petty larceny, pilferage, skimming, misapplication, larceny, petit larceny, biopiracy, misappropriation, shrinkage, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, thieving, petty, embezzlement, shoplifting |
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