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- noun Plural form of
thave .
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Examples
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A man didn't know, he said, when he might be taken prisoner by those "thaves" of Prussians, and he'd better have his money with him till he could get his remittances from across the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Some eight or ten glasses were set down and filled, when Murphy, snatching a couple of bottles from the shelf behind the bar, handed them out to his men, crying, "Here, ye bluddy thaves, lave the glasses to the gintlemen!"
The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898
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"Yis, blank, blank, yir faces, an 'ye'd like to turn better than yirsilves from aff the river, so ye wud, ye black-hearted thaves that ye are."
The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898
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In due season the chieftain came "wid a gang av thaves," but, disappointed in his "endayvor fur to stale away her varchew," besieged the tower.
Irish Wonders 1878
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'I ain't sure o' that, but him can talk their patter; and when the gipsies come this way him and them is as thick as thaves. '
The Golden Calf 1875
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"And the thaves are going to camp and cook their supper on the other side?"
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Like as not the thaves came into the room and lifted him out of his very bed.
Nine Little Goslings Susan Coolidge 1870
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"Go away wid ye, ye thaves and murderers," cried a voice, "rich with brogue," and I could not help laughing in the fellow's face at the answer.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859
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"We think ye are thaves! may the divil confound ye," replied one of the heathen.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859
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It's that little tarrier dog of yours, Mrs. Hopkins, that will be after worryin 'the mice an' the rats, an 'the thaves too, I' ll warrant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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