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1. It took me a while to locate something to tie my hair back … don’t know where all my hairbands went but if my hair blows about like it did the other day, I shall just have to filch a pair of scissors and hack it off
2. Those positions, to which they butter their way through, might have gone to our men by merit, wouldn’t they? And what gadgets they bestow upon their kids! Are we not forced to match those with our limited resources, lest our children should suffer from an inferiority complex? As the unscrupulous enrich themselves without a hitch, how is it immoral for us to filch them a bit, if they seek our favors?’
3. No matter how much you steal or filch: you cannot be prosecuted
4. "So you filch sixpence out of my purse while I'm taking the clothes in
5. The first cry of the enlightened and increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs
6. For though she could filch a lot of money from the papa he wouldn't marry her, and maybe he'll turn stingy in the end, and keep his purse shut
1. Ate biltong with the bread and tomatoes they had filched from the kitchen on the way through to Fazza Viyatu’s rooms
2. Stores, somewhere along the line they must be being filched
3. He filched the container out of the bag and devoured it in seconds
4. She had felt it with her first blows upon the man's chest and she had filched it, in the manner that Gracie had taught her, when the man was dragging her along towards Olin
5. At that moment, he was deep in the bowels of Gray Mountain stuffing the backpacks with invaluable papers filched from Krull Mining
6. His uncle was an old dog who had filched his jewels; Eugenie had no place in his heart nor in his thoughts, though she did have a place in his accounts as a creditor for the sum of six thousand francs
7. You have filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest
8. ''ware,' I should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit
9. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a watch
10. That much I'd filched from him
11. Indeed, in every direction money was being filched from pockets or purses—though, of course, if the attempt miscarried, a great uproar ensued
12. Then came the scandalous scene you know of, and then they got him home more dead than alive, and Liputin filched away the two hundred roubles, leaving him only small change
13. And therefore, whether their conscience is tender or the reverse, our rich men cannot enjoy the wealth they have filched from the poor as the ancients did who believed in their right to it
14. I looked about me in Wall Street; in my mind’s eye I saw the great rascals of “high finance,” their respectability stripped from them, saw them gathering in the spoils which their cleverly trained agents, commercial and political and legal, filched with light fingers from the pockets of the crowd, saw the crowd looking up to these trainers and employers of pickpockets, hailing them “captains of industry”! They reaped only where and what others had sown; they touched industry only to plunder and to blight it; they organized it only that its profits might go to those who did not toil and who despised those who did
1. When she explained what had happened, he marveled, "There IS some good in That Cat after all! I'll have to remember this the next time the little sneak thief filches my jewelry
1. “Yes, Chief, you’re right, but it’s a very long line they’re filching from because there are hundreds of
2. Calragen untied his sorrel from her tree, and the four of us nipped around filching supplies