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Updated: September 1, 2025
Matey certainly could not be called a clever dog stealer, because he had no notion of how to preserve that which he stole. Putting aside their brutality, his methods were incredibly stupid; but when, five minutes later, he lay listening in his bed, the only reflection that his stupid mind brought him was that he had succeeded admirably.
Towards the close of that year, Bridge, one of the late witnesses against him, suddenly disappeared. A charge of murder was then laid against the priest of Clogheen, and a prostitute named Dunlea, a vagrant lad named Lonergan, and a convicted horse stealer called Toohey, were produced in evidence against him, after he had lain nearly a year in prison, heavily fettered.
Several hundred yards away lay the Claiborne sheepfold, with a broad pasture rising beyond. A shadow is not a thing to be ignored by a man trained in the niceties of scouting. Oscar, satisfying himself that substance lay behind the shadow, dismounted and tied his horse. Then he bent low over the stone wall and watched. "It is the big fellow yes? He is a stealer of sheep, as I might have known."
He'll find 'em coming home to him sooner than the cattle he has lost through his sloth and pride. The Lord is on the side of the just, as well as agin all slanderers and revilers." Altascar but half guessed the meaning of the Missourian, yet sufficiently to drive from his mind all but the extravagant power of his native invective. "Stealer of the Sacrament!
"No, she doesn't," said Prudy, "God owns this drawer, and he's willing I should look into it as long as I'm a mind to." "Well, I'll tell aunt Louise, you see if I don't. That's the way little Paddy girls act that steal things." "I ain't a stealer," cried Prudy. "Now, Gracie Clifford, I saw you once, and you was a-nippin' cream out of the cream-pot. You're a Paddy! O, here's a ink-stand!"
He was sentenced, among other things, to have his hand branded with the letters S.S., signifying "Slave Stealer." The incident just referred to inspired one of the finest productions of Whittier's pen.
"Had his crimes then been so great?" I asked, as Mrs. Knapp again ceased to speak. "He had been a wicked, wicked man," said Mrs. Knapp. "The full tale of his villainy I never knew, but he had been a negro stealer, one of those who captured free negroes or the darkies from Kentucky and Missouri in the days before the war, and sold them down the river.
In what religion is this lawful? That they should kill a charmer of hearts! Why art thou a stealer of hearts? This combination may seem to us strange, but Mirza Jani assures us that many students who had left cloistered ease for the sake of God and the Bāb developed an unsuspected warlike energy under the pressure of persecution.
At the same moment Patches and Joe lowered their hands, and Joe, unnoticed by either of the angry men, took a few stealthy steps toward his horse. Phil, deliberately folding his arms, stood looking at Patches. "I'll just call that bluff, you sneakin' calf stealer," he said coolly. "Now, unlimber that gun of yours, and get busy."
It was not until later years that Florida and the other children learned that the driver of the wagon was a "nigger stealer" who stole children and took them to Georgia to sell at the slave markets. When she was 11 years old, Florida saw the surrender of Tallahassee to the Yankees. Three years later she came to Jacksonville to live with her sister.
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