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    1. "Pilfer!" he called, upstairs


    2. "Mrs Pilfer! Supper on the table if you will


    3. And Mr Blotter, the unseasoned young clerk who availed himself of the attic, knew that at that signal, Mrs Pilfer, the goodly gentleman's cook, housekeeper and much more besides, would quickly wash down the brandy and water that she was nursing, and rush to charge Mr Snickerty 's table with such vittles as are required by a gentleman of import, when he returns home from a busy day in his chambers


    4. On occasion, Mr Snickerty might append other trifles of conversation to his instruction, regaling Mrs Pilfer, and thus the other occupants of the building, with details of his day, the state of his health, or some scandal or other with which he had become acquainted


    5. It was a wise precaution, for Mr Snickerty gained his apartment to find that Mrs Pilfer had already been busy


    6. He was momentarily distracted by the arrival of a large pie, borne aloft by Mrs Pilfer, who evidently feared that the banquet was not extensive enough already


    7. Mrs Pilfer was not the sturdiest of housekeepers


    8. As it turned out, he would have lost his stake, since Mrs Pilfer managed to land the pie safely on an uncluttered corner of the table


    9. This achievement came not only as a surprise to Mr Pinscher, but also to one other, for accompanying both pie and Pilfer into the room, and gazing at the former with a lustiness almost equal to Pinscher's, was a plump and sluggish brown and white terrier


    10. In fact, the dog showed barely any regard for its master's presence, and as Mrs Pilfer swept from the room, a good deal more nimbly now that she was unburdened, and returned to the kitchen in search of something to settle her nerves, the dog, without taking its eyes off the heaving table, lay down to patiently wait its turn

    11. And what has such a man to envy in me? These dusty and dismal rooms? Mrs Pilfer, perhaps? Sir, say the word and you may have her


    12. Suddenly overcome with thirst, he searched round for refreshment, and upon finding none, commanded Mrs Pilfer to bring in the port


    13. Mrs Pilfer was sound asleep on the kitchen table, and far too wound up in her own befuddled dreams to answer her employer's call


    14. In your year 1997 we set out on an expedition to pilfer sufficient oxygen


    15. Had there been no startup in the United States, the Soviets would have had nothing to pilfer


    16. money and he got to keep anything that he managed to pilfer


    17. "Don't be surprised at that," returned the musician; "for with the callow poets of our day the way is for every one to write as he pleases and pilfer where he chooses, whether it be germane to the matter or not, and now-a-days there is no piece of silliness they can sing or write that is not set down to poetic licence


    1. It was always suspected that some of the local young hooligans had set off some fireworks, no doubt pilfered from the recent Independence Day celebrations, behind one of the village shops lining the Lakeside Road, and of course without any forethought to the consequences of their actions


    2. The Negro pacificos, many of whom were armed with rifles shipped down at the time but were absolutely without discipline, had no such scruples, and pilfered at every opportunity


    3. encyclopaedia text, which were cut out and pilfered from the


    4. Like those in the corridors, the medkits on the bridge had been pilfered immediately


    5. The amber liquid was smooth going down, infinitely better than the awful, rotgut prison hooch inmates would make out of apple peels, yeast, and sugar pilfered from the prison kitchen


    6. The money is pilfered and shunted by the massive corruption in the 3rd World Nations into a few bank accounts


    7. Over six hundred thousand laptops are pilfered in the U


    8. I look again at the newspaper photo I pilfered from Aiden’s scrapbook, with the caption NEWBORN ABANDONED AT POLICE STATION


    9. No Green Band with their enormous pilfered hoard of stocks and bonds


    10. He put the pilfered diamond back in its black leather canister with the others

    11. The others followed his lead and pilfered half my stash


    12. Tarzan raised aloft the thing he had pilfered from the hut, and, with aim made true by years of fruit and coconut throwing, launched it toward the group of savages


    13. Later, when they discovered the overturned cauldron, and that once more their arrows had been pilfered, it commenced to dawn upon them that they had offended some great god by placing their village in this part of the jungle without propitiating him


    14. The same evening the unfortunate Potapitch related the story to me with tears complaining that the two men had filled their pockets with money (he himself had seen them do it) which had been shamelessly pilfered from his mistress


    1. We sat to with a will and had soon reduced the box to splinters looking at the pile of chopped wood we had there was quite a bit but we knew that here on the peninsula you had to be careful as pilfering was rife especially something like wood


    2. As I watched him go I though he’s a mate of Smiths who was probably in on the looting and other pilfering as well


    3. disclosed material) that they’d started pilfering


    4. capturing it, and, after pilfering a couple of jars from one of the


    5. Earth will have to understand that the current status quo on Earth, with continued uncontrolled population growth and irresponsible pilfering of irreplaceable natural resources, cannot go on


    6. pilfering of the wagons


    7. kitchen begrudgingly, but not without first pilfering a chunk of turkey meat


    8. on sale, but the hidden corners increased the risk of pilfering


    9. Last week we dismissed a girl in the typing pool over a matter of one hundred and twenty pounds, and we suspended a security guard last month for pilfering from the stationery cupboard


    10. The group should not include any boy that was guilty of theft beyond the pilfering of ice chips

    11. Against the plaster wall diagonally crossed by black joists, a meagre pear-tree sometimes leans and the ground-floors have at their door a small swing-gate to keep out the chicks that come pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold


    12. It was the inn that is in every provincial faubourg, with large stables and small bedrooms, where one sees in the middle of the court chickens pilfering the oats under the muddy gigs of the commercial travellers—a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies that creak in the wind on winter nights, always full of people, noise, and feeding, whose black tables are sticky with coffee and brandy, the thick windows made yellow by the flies, the damp napkins stained with cheap wine, and that always smells of the village, like ploughboys dressed in Sundayclothes, has a cafe on the street, and towards the countryside a kitchen-garden


    13. Incautiously I took your part when you were accused of pilfering


    14. The pilfering of an entire jar of Vaseline? Boys will be boys


    15. It was the inn that is in every provincial faubourg, with large stables and small bedrooms, where one sees in the middle of the court chickens pilfering the oats under the muddy gigs of the commercial travellers—a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies


    16. One day, having been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering


    17. For instance, I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; rapin24 is the masculine of rapine


    18. So, while the blacks were wroth at the continued pilfering of their fields, they were not discouraged in their efforts to cultivate the land, as would have been the case had Tarzan permitted his people to lay waste the plantation wantonly


    19. Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour passed by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with thick darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless every sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last


    20. She was particularly fond of pinching and smacking her sister's children, telling tales of their pilfering bread and sugar, and this led to endless and implacable strife with her elder sister

    1. pilfers its treasures and off he


    2. His “liquor still” was behind the rear of his barn so that he kept the flame outside the structure, but by means of copper pipe he collected the liquor in earthenware crocks inside the barn, safe from pilfers and raccoons


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