Meanings of pilferer in English

The following specimen of his punning Latin is addressed to an orchard-pilferer:-

It was locked, but she was already an expert pilferer of keys.

No offence; I mean a pilferer on a large scale.

Rameau pretended to see nothing in me but a contemptible pilferer, without talents or taste.

I would like best of all to see Quinola, that cursed pilferer of jewels, in durance.

She had never been much of a thief; a minor pilferer from time to time at worst.

Or are you still a pilferer?

The old wizard and pilferer!

I knew him to be an impudent pilferer, who, without ceremony, made himself a revenue by the works of others.

My South African daughter rugby tackled a French pilferer who I am sure still smarts at being levelled by a woman.

Passing along the right-hand gallery, he overtook a pilferer with a tarbousche full of glass cubes picked from one of the mosaic pictures.

Driven by necessity, he became a pilferer of candle-ends, picking them from their sockets in the lanterns which the students carried on dark nights.

It may be not all have re-entered the valley-onlya party sent back to bring on the pilferer, who has been missed upon the march.

The entrances to bee-hives are straightened, to prevent the access of wasps and other pilferers.

Originally petty pilferers, the men of Tai-o-hae now begin to force locks and attack strong-boxes.

They were thieves and pilferers who lived hand-to-mouth and by the deliberate misfortune they brought to others.