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Updated: May 7, 2025
The Kapudan Pasha listened to the very last word of this proclamation, then he spurred his horse upon the crier, and snatching the horn from his hand hit him a blow with it on the back, which resounded far and wide, and then with a voice of thunder addressed the suddenly pacified crowd: "Ye worthless vagabonds, ye filthy sneak-thieves, mud-larking crab-catchers, pitchy-fingered slipper-botchers, huddling opium-eaters, swindling knacker-sellers, petty hucksters, ye ragged, filthy, whey-faced tipplers!
In a mining camp there is no mercy for the crook. If the trail could have told tales, there would have been many a story of dead men washed up on the bars, of sneak-thieves given thirty-nine lashes and like the scapegoat turned out into the mountain wilds a rough-and-ready justice administered without judge or jury.
Of course, for this high heroic action to be successful, it had to be performed with the stealth of sneak-thieves. What seemed a long time passed. The one ship turned slowly upon some unseen axis. It wavered back and forth, seeking a point of aim. A second twisted in its place. A third put on the barest trace of solar system drive to get clear of the rest. The fourth One ship vanished.
When the trial was over, Guillen arranged to stay and live tranquilly in Villanueva. There was a highwayman in the town, who levied small sums on the farms for cleaning young sneak-thieves out of the country, and for escorting rich persons when they travelled; Guillen requested him to give up his job and he did not offer the least resistance.
They're sneak-thieves and cutthroats 't I wouldn't trust fur's I could throw a bull by the tail. That's what they be. Types, my granny!" Luck came out of the dark room with the still, frozen, look of a trouble that has gone too deep for words.
Edwards here told you, Hall, to look after your bags because there were sneak-thieves around. And then he looked at me very impolitely. After he went away I saw that you really did suspect me of being something of the sort and it occurred to me that it might be amusing to teach you chaps not to pass compliments." "I didn't mean you to hear me," said Steve confusedly.
The wrong done him by the Transcontinental loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then. For the moment he saw red. These creatures were not even robbers. They were sneak-thieves.
That young cove right opposite to you is one of the best known sneak-thieves in the city. You're asking for trouble that way." "If he or any other of them want my watch," Sogrange answered calmly, "let them come and fetch it. However," he added, buttoning up his coat, "no doubt you are right. Is there anywhere else to take us?" The man hesitated.
"Is it yours to sell?" "It is." There was no trace of resentment in his voice, nor did he show the slightest irritation at being asked so pointed a question. "Vell, I don't keep a pawn-shop. I got no license, and if I had I vouldn't do it too much trouble all de time. Poor vomans, dead-beats, suckers, sneak-thieves all kind of peoples you don't vant, to come in the door vhen you have a pawn-shop."
We crept into the house like a couple of sneak-thieves, and heard Billoo at his very loudest shouting: "I had Morgan on the wire all right and the fool operator cut me off!" Sally snipped her wet fingers in my face. "Hello, fool operator," she said. "Hello, yourself," said I. "But oh, Sally, listen to that wind, and tell me how it sounds to you. A wet hug if you guess the answer."
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