thievishness

• “When the dish was empty and Gerald only midway in his remarks on the thievishness of Yankees who wanted to free darkies and yet offered no penny to pay for their freedom, Ellen rose.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gone with the Wind

• “In a little time after others came and played the same game, only adding to their abominable thievishness by driving off our mules and all our cattle.”

  Plantation Sketches

• “A man, speaking to us once of a very rocky clearing, said, "Stone's got a pretty heavy mortgage on that farm"; and another, wishing to give us a notion of the thievishness common in a certain village, capped his climax thus: -- "Dishonest! why, they have to take in their stone walls o 'nights.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

• “She would work for such a one until the nails dropped off her fingers and her feet crumpled up under her body; but a policeman or a rich person, or a person who ordered one about ...! until she died and was buried in the depths of the world, she would never give in to such a person or admit anything but their thievishness and ill-breeding.”

  Mary, Mary

• “But that crude, corporal fever had a providential thievishness; and not content with stripping me of health and strength, -- not satisfied with pilfering inventiveness and any strong hunger to create -- why, that insatiable fever even robbed me of my insanity.”

  The Certain Hour

• “The first land seen was the little group of islands called Ladrones from the thievishness of the inhabitants, and a short stay was made at”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

• “Hogarth's back was toward him, the iron leg lying near a box in which was a sitting hen, on its top a candlestick, the calico bag, and a lot of the gems: at which the priest's palm covered his awed mouth, and with a fleet thievishness, like a cat on hot bricks, he trotted back to the cottage.”

  The Lord of the Sea

• “[50] Cf. with this the thievishness, and dexterity therein, of the”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

• “According to Confucius there are seven grounds of divorce: disobedience, barrenness, lewd conduct, jealousy, leprosy or any other foul or incurable disease, too much talking, and thievishness.”

  Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

• “Certainly in American slavery he showed a decided tendency to petty thievishness, so that it was necessary to throw a great deal of legal restraint around his petty business relations with others.”

  Slavery in the State of North Carolina

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