``What money hast thou, churl?'' said one of the thieves.
The thieves, however, were too nimble for him, and again secured both the bag and the trusty Gurth.
Montano, the King of Thieves, was first heard of in the mountains some ten years ago, when people said brigands were extinct.
The theory of danger from thieves was banished from thought and speech; though so far conceded in formal act that some slight protection was employed.
'what can you do for us?' 'Why, I can get between the iron window-bars of the parson's house, and throw you out whatever you want.' 'That's a good thought,' said the thieves; 'come along, we shall see what you can do.'
'Will you have all that is here?' At this the thieves were frightened, and said, 'Softly, softly!
Why, if the thieves didn't know their work better they would starve."
All the inhabitants of the immense town, the population of the whole country, and even the teeming millions struggling upon the planet, were with him - down to the very thieves and mendicants.
Burn the
thieves! burn the monopolists in the Image-de-Notre-Dame!"
Then came the Kingdom of Argot; that is to say, all the thieves of France, arranged according to the order of their dignity; the minor people walking first.
hubins , bootblacks, thimble-riggers, street arabs, beggars, the blear-eyed beggars, thieves, the weakly, vagabonds, merchants, sham soldiers, goldsmiths, passed masters of pickpockets, isolated thieves.
The
thieves looked at one another with low murmurs, and a storm gathered over the head of the aristocratic prisoner, raised less by his own words than by the manner of the keeper.