Example Sentences

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Well," said Richard, "if anybody is proposing to burglarise us to-night, I don't envy him the preliminaries with Zero.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

Who would dare attempt to burglarise the Ch�teau de Montalais?

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph

The morning the monkey came, Filipe was prevailed upon to borrow a ladder from another house, and burglarise my home to the extent of putting the monkey in.

From Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Kayme, Sargent

"Thereby advertising to the Lone Wolf the exact location of the jewels, monsieur, so that he might at his leisure make his plans perfect to burglarise the vaults?"

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph