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THIEF
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Traducere în limba română
thief, plural thieves substantiv
1. hoţ, tâlhar, bandit.
2. muc (de lumânare).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“What noise was that?” said the thief, frightened; “I’m sure I heard someone speak.”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
He came to know that it was not fear of him that drove the thief away, but fear of Grey Beaver.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
And Joseph! Joseph a villain and a thief!
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A few minutes elapsed, as you remember, before the sleepy commissionnaire drew your attention to the bell, and those were just enough to give the thief time to make his escape.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he climbed up again, and tried to hit the thieves on the head with them: but they only said, “It must be near morning, for the wind shakes the fir-apples down.”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
“Of course, it is a possible supposition that the thief has had a sudden illness—”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
You are confident that the thief came in a cab?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The servant, however, thought he intended by that to say: That is the first thief, and as he actually was so, he was terrified, and said to his comrade outside: The doctor knows all: we shall fare ill, he said I was the first.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Frederick of course made no objection to that plan, and they set off into the wood to look for the thieves; but they could not find them: and when it grew dark, they climbed up into a tree to spend the night there.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)