But all the people knew my father's chairs and the books of the music. If the Americans did not steal them, everything will be safe. My people do not steal. There was never but one thief in our village, and my father had him so whipped, he ran away and never came back. I heard he was living in San Jacinto, and was a thief yet, spite of all that whipping he had. I think if it is in the blood to be a thief, not even whipping will take it out, Majella,"英文原著 · 《Ramona》
Victoire went back to her work. As for him, he remained in his room all day, thinking. That night he did not sleep. And he kept saying to himself:
"What is the good of thinking? I am up against one of those problems which are not solved by any amount of thought. It is certain that I am not alone in the matter and that, between Daubrecq and the police, there is, in addition to the third thief that I am, a fourth thief who is working on his own account, who knows me and who reads my game clearly. But who is this fourth thief? And am I mistaken, by any chance?英文原著 · 《The Crystal Stopper》
And this miserable quibble was not a lie! My lip curled, I turned my back without a word, and drove home to my Mount Street flat in a new fury of savage scorn. Not a lie, indeed! It was the one that is half a truth, the meanest lie of all, and the very last to which I could have dreamt that Raffles would stoop. So far there had been a degree of honor between us, if only of the kind understood to obtain between thief and thief. Now all that was at an end. Raffles had cheated me. Raffles had completed the ruin of my life.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
I hated, I despised her. She stole things, she was a thief. She was sent away for being a thief. Why do you let her influence you?英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
LORD GORING. I mean that you stole that ornament from my cousin, Mary Berkshire, to whom I gave it when she was married. Suspicion fell on a wretched servant, who was sent away in disgrace. I recognised it last night. I determined to say nothing about it till I had found the thief. I have found the thief now, and I have heard her own confession.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
Four times he has received bail, and all four times he has shown up for - his scheduled court appearance. - Bully for him-- he may be a thief but he's a prompt thief.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
The Gauleiter who was overseeing this brutal beating was the very same thief the Gauleiter who was overseeing this brutal beating was the very same thief演讲 · 《The life-long learner ~ Bernie Dunlap》