1 He tried to steal sugar under his aunt's very nose, and got his knuckles rapped for it.
2 But with the closing sentence his hand began to curve and steal forward; and the instant the "Amen" was out the fly was a prisoner of war.
3 Presently the boy began to steal furtive glances at the girl.
4 Gradually their talk died out and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.
5 As the sun began to steal in upon the boys, drowsiness came over them, and they went out on the sandbar and lay down to sleep.
6 I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour, and then I would steal the key, or saw myself out, one or t'other.
7 I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they won't suspicion that I done it.
8 I'll steal it and hide it; and by and by, when I'm away down the river, I'll write a letter and tell Mary Jane where it's hid.
9 One man asked me if I see the niggers steal it.
10 Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actuly going to help steal that nigger out of slavery.
11 He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.
12 So we allowed we would steal everything there was that come handy.
13 Tom said that what he meant was, we could steal anything we needed.
14 When I start in to steal a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I ain't no ways particular how it's done so it's done.
15 Stories of gypsies, who steal children, are not at all in vogue in this part of the world, and would not be believed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 55. Major Cavalcanti.