land-thief

Israel is land-thief by LincolnMarx on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 at 10: 50: 50 PM

May We No Longer Be Silent 2008

In the final negotiations, as the Dutch were surrendering their fortress to Zheng Chenggong, he appeared once more as a translator: "Tingbin the scoundrel land-thief and master-traitor ... has, it appears, little authority among the common people, but is used for translation."

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Old Man Dawson, the penny-pinching old land-thief — and a fine briber he is, too.

Main Street 2004

But I never drew a lawyer's indictment of him as a land-thief: that's different.

The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

By some of the dark ingenuities of that age of priestcraft a curious thing was discovered -- that if you kill every usurer, every forestaller, every adulterater, every user of false weights, every fixer of false boundaries, every land-thief, every water-thief, you afterwards discover by a strange indirect miracle, or disconnected truth from heaven, that you have no millionaires.

The Crimes of England 1905

I am Hereward, "he almost shouted;" the Berserker, the brain-hewer, the land-thief, the sea-thief, the feeder of wolf and raven, -- Aoi!

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

He grunted, "I never thought I'd be agreeing with Old Man Dawson, the penny-pinching old land-thief -- and a fine briber he is, too.

Main Street 1920

He grunted, "I never thought I'd be agreeing with Old Man Dawson, the penny-pinching old land-thief -- and a fine briber he is, too.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918