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It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

If any one lends help or advice to a wife who is filching the property of her husband, he shall be held for theft.

From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Hecker, Eugene Arthur

“Wake, Glaucon; quit your golden thoughts of Eleusis; Lycon is filching the crown.”

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns