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Sentences starting with stealing

Stealing is like charity in one respect,--it is apt to begin at home. [4]
Stealing was prohibited by her father as wicked and dangerous, and she had never transgressed his commands. [10]
Stealing between Kathleen and the gate-she was within five feet of it he closed and locked it. [11]

Sentences ending with stealing

Is the knot you tie safe against picking and stealing? [11]
Now what would you call stealing? [5]
It was worth stealing. [5]
So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. [5]
Into this he didn't enter minutely, and he didn't blame her for having so big a menage; he only said he was sorry that he hadn't been able to support it without having to come, even for a day, to the stupidity of stealing. [11]
I called it borrowing, because that was what pap always called it; but Tom said it warn't borrowing, it was stealing. [5]
I care not about the fleeces, if there be no more stealing. [11]

More example sentences with the word stealing in them

I wish Osgood would sue for stealing Holmes's poem. [5]
There it was, with its solid green gates between the lions, its yellow walls with the fringe of peeping magnolias and oranges, with its green-latticed gallery from which Monsieur Auguste had let himself down after stealing the miniature. [9]
Besides the fellow will have left off stealing at any rate at first, for his late master was none of the mildest and had cured him of his pilfering I should think, once for all. [10]
A great serpent was stealing out of the East and moving down upon Lebanon. [11]
The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. [2]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
But Paula--you must understand that Paula had nothing, positively nothing whatever to do with the stealing of the emerald. [10]
A clump of trees hid the edge of the lake along which the Corinna's boat was stealing towards the starting-point. [6]
Children were sent to the penal colonies for seven years for stealing a rabbit! [5]
Do you mean to tell me, on the plea that business is business and hence a department by itself, that deception, cheating, and stealing are justified and necessary? [9]
It is difficult to say exactly what was the sin of stealing that kind of pie, especially if the one who stole it ate it. [4]
He was about to make haste on deck again, where his own nest was, when, glancing through the window, he saw Mahommed Ibrahim stealing down the bank to the boat's side. [11]
I will promise to go into court and swear I think him capable of stealing pea-nuts from a blind pedlar. [5]
Presently I began to detect a most evil and searching odor stealing about on the frozen air. [5]
He watched her till he saw her drop her face in her hands; then, opening the door and stealing out, he came and laid a hand upon her shoulder, and she heard him say: "Rosalie! [11]
A moment, and there came across the valley from the other side, stealing deep sweetness from the hollow rocks, the answer of the bird which had heard her master's call. [11]
Mechanically she took the seat which Rudyard had occupied, and looked at him across the table with a dread conviction stealing over her face, robbing it of every vestige of its heavenly colour, giving her eyes a staring and solicitous look. [11]
And still in the dark hours a stirring, a delicious sensation preceding reason, and the consciousness of a figure stealing about the room. [9]
He presently found that while he was busy drawing life from one of his sleeves a young English gentleman was stealing supplies from the other one. [5]
No one doubts that the quadrupeds inhabiting snow-clad regions have been rendered white to protect them from their enemies, or to favour their stealing on their prey. [1]
I am afraid that half mankind would accuse me of stealing their thoughts, if I printed them. [6]
Extraordinary phenomenon at such a time, scenes of long ago and little cherished then, are stealing into his mind. [9]
He had often succeeded in stealing into Paulina's garden, but he could not at first realize his hope of being observed by Selene of obtaining speech with her. [10]
Did Mr. Worthington still while away his evenings stealing barber poles and being chased around Cambridge by irate policemen? [9]
When he had Stepped across the threshold, an inward voice warned him to return, and told him that he must be treading the path of unrighteousness, for that he was stealing in on tiptoe like a thief; but the excuse was ready at once. [10]
Chambers did his stealing, and got the peach stones, apple cores, and melon rinds for his share. [5]
He is a stealing man, and is also learnedly scientific. [5]
He has been stealing information for years, and sending it to Kruger, he and--" He stopped short, and into his face came a look of sullen reticence. [11]
Like an Indian stealing horses he had skulked into the recesses of the canyons. [13]
His crime was stealing funds belonging to a Squatting and Mining Company. [11]
Besides, I am stealing even this brief time. [10]
As she did so, however, the smell of a clover field, which is as honey, came stealing through the room, and all at once a strange association of ideas flashed into her brain. [11]
He walked on, slowly, to feel stealing on him that desperate longing for adventure which he had known so well in his younger days. [9]
He could be--a servant to the pleasure of the man who was stealing from him the wife sealed to him in the Roumelian country. [11]
Nothing all day save these, and nothing all the sleepless night save a desert wolf stealing down the sands. [11]
Even as I sat on the bench in the shadow of the willows, watching the sentry who paced before the arched entrance, I caught sight of a man stealing along the banquette on the other side of the road. [9]
His disordered imagination represented to him a crowd of persons stealing towards them beneath the cover of the bushes, lurking in every ditch, and peeping from the boughs of every rustling tree. [12]
In Tasmania I read the entry, in an old manuscript official record, of a case where a convict was given three hundred lashes--for stealing some silver spoons. [5]
Tears were stealing quietly down her cold face. [11]
He had been put in jail on suspicion of stealing a buffalo-robe, and he lay in jail eight months, waiting for the judge to come to Baddeck on his yearly circuit. [4]
Hugh was not prosecuted for his threats or for stealing his brother's estates and title, because the wife and brother would not testify against him--and the former would not have been allowed to do it, even if she had wanted to. [5]
It came stealing over us presently, and then we bade each other a last farewell. [5]
The still hungry, or the still revengeful man will not think of stealing food, or of wreaking his vengeance. [1]
Byng was as one fascinated; light was breaking in on his rage, his besmirched pride, his vengeance; hope was stealing tremblingly into his face. [11]
The tawny fires of the sunset were dying down behind us, the mist stealing, ghostlike, into the valleys below; in the sky a little moon curled like a freshly cut silver shaving, that presently turned to gold, the white star above it to fire. [9]
I was outside of the belt of light falling from the door, and stealing round I came near to the windmill on the town side. [11]
An ample star of rare brilliancy came stealing up over the trees against the sky-line, twinkling and brimming with light. [11]
In the delirium of fever she saw them stealing and the constable seizing them. [10]
Probably it never occurred to him that there was any virtue in not stealing and lying, for honesty and veracity were in the atmosphere about him. [4]
Second, it is no stealing to take from you what you did not have. [11]
Easy stealing is no better than easy lying, where detection of the lie is difficult. [4]
Some caution is needed even in giving a warning; for many a one, who would never have thought of stealing, has become a thief through false suspicion. [10]
They have the name of stealing from each other now and then, it is true, but many of their priceless possessions would hardly tempt a beggar. [6]
Once in the long silence a figure rose up silently, and stealing across the room to a door near the jury box, tapped upon it with a pencil. [11]
At this time Laflamme was stealing watchfully through the tropical scrub, where hanging vines tore his hands, and the sickening perfume of jungle flowers overcame him more than the hard journey which he had undergone during the past twelve hours. [11]
Busino saw a lad of fifteen led to execution for stealing a bag of currants. [4]
Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. [5]
Lord bless you, it is a common practice with Orion to go about town stealing little things that happen to be lying around loose. [5]
The breezes stealing into the church through the open casements wafted hither and thither the odours of the chancel flowers, and mingled with those fainter and subtler perfumes set free by the rustling of summer gowns. [9]
I make that interjection because I would not accuse Archdeacon Wilberforce of stealing my hat--I should not think of it. [5]
He could drink in the yellowish green, with here and there in the distance a little house; and about two miles away smoke stealing up from the midst of the plantation where Playmore was--Playmore, his father's house--to be his own one day. [11]
I could not imagine how this curious thing had happened; for I knew one thing--that a certain amount of pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains, and that this pride protects a man from deliberately stealing other people's ideas. [5]
It was as if he were counsel in one of those cases when, the minds and sympathies of judge and jury at first arrayed against him, he had irresistibly cloven his way to their judgment--not stealing away their hearts, but governing, dominating their intelligences. [11]
In about an hour we found out; for by that time it was all over the village that Father Peter had been arrested for stealing a great sum of money from the astrologer. [5]
To his horror, Hodder felt stealing over him, incredible though it seemed after the depths through which he had passed, a faint sense of fascination in the adventure. [9]
On his way hither, stealing through the trees, he had passed a half-score of halberdiers making for the manor, and he had seen others going towards the shore. [11]
Sometimes I saw him at an early hour, stealing forth wrapped to the eyes in a mantle. [4]
Mrs. Smith took her work, and tried not to observe the countenance, which the other tried to hide between the large sheets; but she could not help becoming aware of tears stealing down the face and dropping on the lap. [14]
A party of filibusters from Zorah and Eschol captured the place, and lived there in a free and easy way, worshiping gods of their own manufacture and stealing idols from their neighbors whenever they wore their own out. [5]
Presently, in the far apse, an organ began to play, its notes stealing softly out through the great spaces like a benediction. [4]
To use an expression which is commonly ignored in polite society, they were "hell-bent" on stealing some of the luscious-looking oranges from branches which overhung the fences, but I restrained them. [5]
And then if Europe chose to go on stealing from us, we would say with noble enthusiasm, "American lawmakers do steal but not from foreign authors--Not from foreign authors! [5]
While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep--for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. [5]
So the Marchioness dried her eyes with the backs of her hands, and, stealing softly up the steps, peeped in through the glass door. [12]
Yes, she had drawn up the blind to admit the light when it should be dawn, and there, between the foot of the bed and the dark casement, it crouched and slunk along, groping its way with noiseless hands, and stealing round the bed. [12]
When these were done, she took some needle-work from her basket, and sat herself down upon a stool beside the lattice, where the honeysuckle and woodbine entwined their tender stems, and stealing into the room filled it with their delicious breath. [12]
Suddenly in the crowd in front of him he saw Krool stealing along with a wide-awake hat well down over his eyes. [11]
Powhatan and other chiefs still professed friendship and sent presents, but the Indians grew more and more offensive, lurking about and stealing all they could lay hands on. [4]
Though the wet came stealing through the roof and trickling down upon their heads, Miss Brass uttered no complaint, but presided over the tea equipage with imperturbable composure. [12]
Here was the broken pavement, worn, so long ago, by pious feet, that Time, stealing on the pilgrims' steps, had trodden out their track, and left but crumbling stones. [12]
Sometimes, as the boats of the University or the Institute were returning at dusk, their rowers would see the canoe stealing into the shadows as they drew near it. [6]
Mrs Jarley's back being then towards him, the military gentleman shook his forefinger as a sign that her myrmidons were not to apprise her of his presence, and stealing up close behind her, tapped her on the neck, and cried playfully 'Boh! [12]
Every man's business being assigned him, I started to Natchez on foot, having sold my horse in New Orleans,--with the intention of stealing another after I started. [5]
A change had been gradually stealing over her, in the time of her loneliness and sorrow. [12]
The man had been accused of stealing and assault, but the evidence was unconvincing to Gaston. [11]
There must have been a tear stealing from beneath its eyelid. [6]
A man can't become morally perfect by stealing one or a thousand green watermelons, but every little helps. [5]
Was she stealing away from fear of punishment? [10]
More than once at lesson-time have I gone off with Hugo and young Harvey for a rabbit hunt, stealing two dogs from the pack, and thus committing a double offence. [9]
He seized the ancient book, as it were to deliver its incantations against everyone destroying his peace, stealing from him that which he prized beyond all earthly things. [11]
When she awoke again, broad day was shining through the lofty openings in the walls, and, stealing in slanting rays but midway down, seemed to make the building darker than it had been at night. [12]
Paula laid down again with Orion's letter in her hand, and when she felt slumber stealing upon her, she pushed it under her pillow and ere long was sleeping on it. [10]
You make me a thief before all the world by forging my name, and stealing the money for which I am responsible, and then you rate me so low that you think you'll bamboozle me by threats of suicide. [11]
In the east a sad golden radiance was stealing up and driving back the mystery of the night, and that weird loneliness of an arctic world. [11]
This last week a fright has been stealing upon me. [5]
According to the "General Historie" the company of Ratcliffe and Archer was a disorderly rabble, constantly tormenting the Indians, stealing their corn, robbing their gardens, beating them, and breaking into their houses and taking them prisoners. [4]

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