filcher

Example Sentences

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For years, reluctant sharers only had to fend off the occasional fry filcher, or the girlfriend who virtuously passes on dessert — and then plants her fork in her companion’s creme brulee.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

He ne'er by any luck was grieved, By any care perplexed— No filcher he, though when he preached, He always "took" a text.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

He had not sought to follow up this adventure, and assure himself whether it was indeed the daughter of Megabazus whose mysterious face had been revealed to him by Chance, the great filcher.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile

Only the cry of a diving night-bird startled the stillness of the tranquil air; a rapacious filcher that quickly rose, and swept onward through the sea of night.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart