more thieving

Example Sentences

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The truth is, I suppose, there was far more thieving going on at Hailsham than we—or the guardians—ever wanted to admit.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

When you complained to me the other day that there was no more thieving left to do in Hebron, I told you you're rich enough to quit, and you admitted it, you remember?

From The Lion of Petra by Mundy, Talbot

One may travel as soon from Agra to Sinde as to Surat, but there is more thieving on the Sinde road, in spite of every effort of the Mogul government to prevent it.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

It has remanded to their dungeon more felon thoughts, more black doubts, more thieving sorrows, than there are sands on the seashore.

From The Song of our Syrian Guest by Knight, William Allen