thief

The hope was that if thieves could see the Club, they wouldn’t bother to break your window in the first place.

Last month I turned and faced their surreptitious security: “Catch any thieves today?”

He suspects that he saw, somehow, what the thieves saw, tapping into their perception of the back of the house.

Typically most women carry their concealed firearms in their purses, the main target of thieves.

Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”

Megan Boken was one of many slain by thieves going ‘Apple picking.’

"Supreme chief of thieves and picaroons," I suggested again.

But in the country there were no thieves—no locks and bars in use—no need for the policeman.

I had an adventure with a couple of thieves and I foiled them; they've got seventy pistols.

Down, down, you Phœnician thieves, and sue for Pharaoh's mercy!

It is not really destitution, but intemperance which turns them into thieves.