Here are such numbers, I will not say of arrant
thieves, but of errant knights and errant squires, errant monks and errant minstrels, errant jugglers and errant jesters, that a man with a single merk would be in danger, much more a poor swineherd with a whole bagful of zecchins.
"They say," she cried, with the awful relish of a schoolgirl, "that all that country isn't ruled by the King of Italy, but by the King of
Thieves. Who is the King of
Thieves?"
'and listen where the sound comes from.' At last the
thieves found him out, and lifted him up in their hands.
But neither were the
thieves he had been looking after.
burn the
thieves! burn the extortioners!" This cry, shouted with an ensemble, obtained enthusiastic success.
This procession, which our readers have seen set out from the Palais de Justice, had organized on the way, and had been recruited by all the knaves, idle
thieves, and unemployed vagabonds in Paris; so that it presented a very respectable aspect when it arrived at the Grève.
SOME
THIEVES broke into a house and found nothing but a Cock, whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could.
Pinocchio discovers the
thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty
Go on--I see plenty plain enough, now, that them
thieves didn't get way with the di'monds.
"My public servants have been fools and rogues from the date of your accession to power," replied the State; "my legislative bodies, both State and municipal, are bands of
thieves; my taxes are insupportable; my courts are corrupt; my cities are a disgrace to civilisation; my corporations have their hands at the throats of every private interest - all my affairs are in disorder and criminal confusion."
As there are no men who complain more of the frauds of business than highwaymen, gamesters, and other
thieves of that kind, so there are none who so bitterly exclaim against the frauds of gamesters, &c., as usurers, brokers, and other
thieves of this kind; whether it be that the one way of cheating is a discountenance or reflection upon the other, or that money, which is the common mistress of all cheats, makes them regard each other in the light of rivals; but Nightingale no sooner heard the story than he exclaimed against the fellow in terms much severer than the justice and honesty of Allworthy had bestowed on him.
"See, the prince is pluming himself," said one of the
thieves. "He's a fine looking fellow," said another; "if he had only a comb and hair-grease, he'd take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids."