Crossword-Solution: PILFERS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Withal, thoroughly good-natured and obliging, and perfectly honest, except where food and drink are concerned, which he pilfers like a monkey.

Gilbert's _Angler's Delight_ (1676) is a mere pamphlet; William Gilbert, gent., pilfers from Walton, without naming him, and has literally nothing original or meritorious.

Hiding in cupboard work while the sweated little shop-assistant slips a marked shilling from the till, hiding in basement work while a trembling little figure creeps down and pilfers the stock--these are the pranks that come to your Brungers.

Horse-flesh is the most "sensitive capital" on the frontier, and he who pilfers it runs more danger of lynching than does the man who takes the life of a fellow being.

One morn in bitter mockery Milcho mused: “What better laughter than when thief from thief Pilfers the pilfered goods? Our Druid thief Two thousand years hath milked and shorn this land; Now comes the thief outlandish that with him Would share milk-pail and fleece! O Bacrach old, To hear thee shout ‘Impostor!’” Straight he went To Bacrach’s cell hid in a skirt wind-shav’n Of low-grown wood, and met, departing thence, Three sailors sea-tanned from a ship late-beached.