"Burgle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cook and the housemaid. It is just as well that we did not bring up our trunks, or we should have had to dump them down in the front garden. You wait here, dear, under the shelter of the porch, and I will walk round and see if I can burgle it.' ...
— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle
... will resort to fraud, to force, to anything. She will burgle your office: she will have you attacked and garotted at night in ...
— Augustus Does His Bit • George Bernard Shaw
... bridge was raised. He slipped into this room, because it was the first that he saw. There was no other place where he could hide, so he popped in behind this curtain. That all seems clear enough. It is likely that his main idea was to burgle the house; but Mr. Douglas chanced to come upon him, so he murdered ...
— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle |
