burglary

"Burglary!" cried the Colonel, with his coffee-cup in mid-air.

You young jade, you've committed burglary -- that's what you've done.

Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.'

She sought out one or two of the jurymen, talked with them, and endeavoured to possess them with favourable dispositions, on account that nothing was taken away, and no house broken, etc.; but all would not do, they were over-ruled by the rest; the two wenches swore home to the fact, and the jury found the bill against me for robbery and house-breaking, that is, for felony and burglary.

He had at such times a motto of which I might have made earlier use, but the fact is that I have only once before described a downright burglary in which I assisted, and that without knowing it at the time.

stealing cattle and such things ain't rob- bery; it's burglary," says Tom Sawyer.

Not that the idea of being robbed presented itself often or strongly to his mind: hoarding was common in country districts in those days; there were old labourers in the parish of Raveloe who were known to have their savings by them, probably inside their flock-beds; but their rustic neighbours, though not all of them as honest as their ancestors in the days of King Alfred, had not imaginations bold enough to lay a plan of burglary. How could they have spent the money in their own village without betraying themselves?

'They might have at least respected my pin!' he thought, and he was moved as by a slight, and began at once to recollect that he was here an interloper, in a strange house, which he had entered almost by a burglary, and where at any moment he might be scandalously challenged.

It will be a mighty different thing to commit burglary in Piccadilly, either by day or night.

An audacious burglary and dastardly assault have been committed on the premises of the City and Suburban Bank in Sloane Street, W.

I should like to hear you explain how burglary is collecting what is coming to you."

Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less.