sneak thief

Historical Examples of sneak thief

• Like a sneak-thief, too, emerges a shock-headed navigator in his shirt-sleeves.

  With The Night Mail

  Rudyard Kipling

• The lover who seeks to be liberal is a hypocrite, a sneak-thief robbing his own heart.

  The Jucklins

  Opie Read

• Perhaps it was a sneak-thief who has stolen the ax or the saw from the woodshed.

  The Young Bridge-Tender

  Arthur M. Winfield

• "Out with you, you sneak-thief; I am not afraid of you," Karl cried again.

  The Devil

  Joseph O'Brien

• More than that, he has the sly and stealthy manners of the sneak-thief and the brigand.

  Birds of the Rockies

  Leander Sylvester Keyser