Crossword-Solution: THIEVES 7 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

That the purpose might be theft I could not believe, since thieves are practically unknown upon Barsoom.

And I reckon they must a _been_ sperits—because, _you_ know our dogs, and ther’ ain’t no better; well, them dogs never even got on the _track_ of ’m once! You explain _that_ to me if you can!—_any_ of you!” “Well, it does beat—” “Laws alive, I never—” “So help me, I wouldn’t a be—” “_House_-thieves as well as—” “Goodnessgracioussakes, I’d a ben afeard to _live_ in sich a—” “’Fraid to _live!_—why, I was that scared I dasn’t hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or _set_ down, Sister Ridgeway.

The ethos 'honor among thieves' held true here as it did in many adolescent societies, most recently the American Old West.

When they arrived on the open heath, where Gurth might have had some trouble in finding his road, the thieves guided him straight forward to the top of a little eminence, whence he could see, spread beneath him in the moonlight, the palisades of the lists, the glimmering pavilions pitched at either end, with the pennons which adorned them fluttering in the moonbeams, and from which could be heard the hum of the song with which the sentinels were beguiling their night-watch.

And mind you we don’t know anything about any murder, or any di’monds, or any thieves—don’t you forget that.” I had to sigh a little over the way he had got it fixed.