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"Oh, the murderin' hound of a mate!" "It's it's mutiny," gulped Captain Scraggs in a hard, strained voice. "That bloody fiend of a mate! The sly sneak-thief, with his pleasant smile and his winnin' ways! Saw a chance to steal the Maggie and her rich cargo, and he is leavin' us here, marooned on a desert island, with two cannibals."
Wait down here if you wanna." Babbitt had spoken with the deference which all the Clan of Good Fellows give to hotel clerks. Now he said with snarling abruptness: "I may have to wait some time. I'm Riesling's brother-in-law. I'll go up to his room. D' I look like a sneak-thief?" His voice was low and not pleasant.
You've done it at last!" he screamed, with hysteric iteration. "You've made me a desp'rit' outlaw." "Outlaw! You're only a cheap sneak-thief!" "That's right, Cap'n Sproul," remarked the constable. "He can't even steal hens till it's dark and they can't look at him. If they turned and put their eye on him he wouldn't dare to touch 'em." "I don't dast to be an outlaw, hey?" shrieked Mr. Luce.
Her terror was very real, and Marcus was called in to oust the intruder. "It must be a sneak-thief," said Miss Fenler. "It am a sneak-thief," said Marcus, appearing with the small dog in his arms. "He stole a slipper, an den sneaked under der bed ter chew on it. Sure, he am a sneak-thief, but I knows a cullud gemman what wants a dog, an' I guess he's 'bout the right size.
The thief of the night had come and gone; some silver and jewellery which had been stored in a closet adjoining the bedroom of the sisters had been taken. Courthope understood very little of the talk that went on. At length, to his great relief, Madge gave her full attention to him in parley. 'Won't you believe that I know nothing whatever of the doings of this sneak-thief?
If the mother were away, the house would be shut up; and the Golden Wasp, that sneak-thief in royal robes, could not get in. She enters, therefore, dwarf as she is, the house of the giantess whose ruin she is meditating; she makes her way right to the back, all heedless of the Bembex, her sting and her powerful jaws. What cares she that the home is not deserted?
I am merely interested to know how a sneak-thief looks when he meets " he laughed; "the man he has robbed. However, it might not be pleasant for the rest of you." His mother was silent; her plan of making things "commonplace" was not as simple as she thought. Robert Ferguson, on his door-step, looked after them, his face falling abruptly into stern lines.
"So Bernstorff is called into consultation, the head of an embassy that has made the German secret service the laughing-stock of the world, an ambassador that has his private papers filched by a common sneak-thief in the underground railway and is fool enough to send home the most valuable documents by a jackass of a military attaché who lets the whole lot be taken from him by a dunderheaded British customs officer at Falmouth!
"Oh, Father!" cried Kate. "It was my letter. I could see my name on the envelope. I ASKED you for it, before I took it." "From behind my back, like the sneak-thief you are. You are not fit to teach in a school where half the scholars are the children of your brothers and sisters, and you are not fit to live with honest people. Pack your things and be off!" "Now? This afternoon?" asked Kate.
It is the most despicable thief and robber among our feathered creatures. From May to August, it is gorged with the fledglings of the nest. It is fortunate that its range is so limited. In size it is smaller than the common crow, and is a much less noble and dignified bird. Its caw is weak and feminine a sort of split and abortive caw, that stamps it the sneak-thief it is.
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