Spanish word for magpie , derived perhaps from Latin furax, meaning "
thievish", in reference to the magpie's tendency to collect shiny items.
Kaynak: Urracaunclean, insolent, ungrateful, mendacious,
thievish, abominably lazy, great talkers to their end, and naïve and childish" (Baegert 1952:80).
Kaynak: Guaycura peoplewith live cancer cells:"The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and
thievish race of men ever to inhabit this sphere.
Kaynak: Jay Katzcommandment viii., Solomon and the thief, the merchant and the
thievish innkeeper; commandment ix., the son of the publican Baya.
Kaynak: Midrash Aseret ha-DibrotThe Sansis were the
thievish and degraded tribe sic and the house of Sindhanwalia naturally feeling ashamed of its Sansi name invented a
Kaynak: Sansi peopleThey are of mean stature and courage, covetous and
thievish, industrious to earn a peny; and therefore hire themselves out to their
Kaynak: Eno peopleThey had been confined about three weeks for
thievish practices. In the corner of the room, we saw; shoved together, a quantity of dust,
Kaynak: Old Tolbooth, Edinburghbreast,From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,For truth proves
thievish for a prize so dear.
Kaynak: Sonnet 48The second one, a scathing satire to the government officials and their
thievish behaviour, is one of the first examples of Russian comic
Kaynak: Mikhail Matinskyglass will truly show Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's
thievish progress to eternity.
Kaynak: Sonnet 77Ben is entreated by Fillip and Sot, two of a race of
thievish "G'Home Gnomes" to rescue some of their people from a clan of trolls.
Kaynak: Magic Kingdom for Sale — SOLD!They marched thro' our Land cruelly, cruelly,They marched thro' our Land cruelly,They marched thro' our Land With a bloody
thievish Band To
Kaynak: Ye Jacobites by NameThrough experience and necessity, Van Richten has mastered some
thievish date June 2010 tricks. The "read languages" score is extremely
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