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Thievery Alfarache, Guzmán de picaresque, peripatetic thief; lived by unscrupulous wits. [Span. Lit.: The Life of Guzman de Alfarache] Scottish Robin Hood; robbed only the English. [Br. Hist.: Walsh Classical, 31–32] tricky thief; pupil of Fagin. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Oliver Twist] master robber. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 96] thief released instead of Jesus to appease crowd. [N.T.: Matthew 27:16–26; Mark 15:7–15; John 18:40] Vulcan’s three-headed, thieving son. [Rom. Myth.: Benét, 154]
accomplished criminal; swindles, forges, and steals. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] a housebreaker; burglarizes Chertsey. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] London pickpocket and thief. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] he trained young boys to become thieves. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] thief; robbed Bounderby’s Bank. [Br. Lit.: Hard Times] took from the rich and gave to the poor. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood] “stole the tarts” made by Queen of Hearts. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring Gould, 152] a backwoods bandit with heroic qualities, chosen by a rich planter to be his daughter’s husband. [Am. Lit.: Eudora Welty The Robber Bridegroom in Weiss, 124] sheep stealer succeeds by waiting till the shepherds fall asleep. [Br. Lit.: The Second Shepherd’s Play] god of thieves. [Gk. Myth.: Wheeler, 240] Clerks slang for thieves. [Br. Usage: Brewer Hand-book, 754; Br. Lit.: I Henry IV; II Henry IV] humorous thief and rogue. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor; Henry V] leading Victorian criminal-hero. [Br. Lit.: Herman, 19–20] Fagin’s thieving associate. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] Welshman who “stole a piece of beef.” [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring Gould, 72–73] (1706–1739) English housebreaker and highway-man. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1108] a romanticized burglar. [Am. Lit: Alias Jimmy Valentine, Espy, 337] stole a loaf of bread; sentenced to 19 years in jail. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A freed slave whose cons and thieveries entangle him in a "web of endless obligations" (15), Calhoun flees the wrath of a New Orleans crime boss and a marriage-minded girlfriend by sneaking on board the Republic, a ship marked by "the memory of too many runs of black gold between the New World and the Old" (21). |
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