A thief who steals without using violence.
1 The following specimen of his punning Latin is addressed to an orchard - pilferer : -
2 It was locked, but she was already an expert pilferer of keys.
3 No offence; I mean a pilferer on a large scale.
4 Rameau pretended to see nothing in me but a contemptible pilferer , without talents or taste.
5 I would like best of all to see Quinola, that cursed pilferer of jewels, in durance.
6 She had never been much of a thief; a minor pilferer from time to time at worst.
7 Or are you still a pilferer ?
8 The old wizard and pilferer !
9 I knew him to be an impudent pilferer , who, without ceremony, made himself a revenue by the works of others.
10 My South African daughter rugby tackled a French pilferer who I am sure still smarts at being levelled by a woman.
11 Passing along the right-hand gallery, he overtook a pilferer with a tarbousche full of glass cubes picked from one of the mosaic pictures.
12 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.
13 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.
14 The entrances to bee-hives are straightened, to prevent the access of wasps and other pilferers .
15 Originally petty pilferers , the men of Tai-o-hae now begin to force locks and attack strong-boxes.
16 They were thieves and pilferers who lived hand-to-mouth and by the deliberate misfortune they brought to others.
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