"Burgle" Quotes from Famous Books
... spoke slowly and deliberately—"I wanted to 'sassinate him, or rob him, or burgle him. If I could catch him and lick him, in a fair fight, I'd do it; and I wouldn't care how hard I hit him, or ... — The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... the brutal burglar burgle; Whilst sentiment will calmly gurgle Bland platitudes, but not attack That sacred ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 • Various
... on fire, lie perfectly still and count imaginary sheep jumping over an imaginary fence; if you feel the folding bed closing up let it close and go on with your counting; if you know that burglars are in the room pay no attention to them and let them burgle—you have business of your own to attend to. A man with a thoroughly developed case of insomnia has no time for such ... — The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott
... rear windows. They were closed and locked, as when he had left. Opening them, he peered out and down the fire-escape; he had always had a notion that anybody foolish enough to want to burgle his rooms would find it easy to effect an entrance via the fire-escape, whose bottom rung was only eight feet or so above the level of the backyard. And now, since the Twenty-ninth Street houses had been torn down, lending access easy via the excavation, such an attempt ... — The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance |