Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.

A gold ring belonging to the healer rests in a nest on top of a tree ; fighters might make it fall by hurling rocks, thieves may want to climb the tree, while a magic user can simply cast the fetch spell to retrieve the nest, and then, while the fighter and magic user return the ring for a reward, the thief can choose between returning or selling the same ring in the thieves ' guild ( which is not available for those not possessing the " thieving " skills ).

And if someone were to think of other resemblances between Opportunity and Hermes, he might also ask the proverbial question: " Who makes the thief?

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Hence to place, the thief went up with Christ to heaven, that he might be with Christ, as it was said to him: " Thou shalt be with Me in Paradise "; but as to reward, he was in Paradise, for he there tasted and enjoyed the divinity of Christ, together with the other saints.

Augustine of Hippo does not name the thief, but wonders if he might not have been baptized at some point.

An outlaw might be killed with impunity ; and it was not only lawful but meritorious to kill a thief flying from justice — to do so was not murder.

A man who slew a thief was expected to declare the fact without delay, otherwise the dead man ’ s kindred might clear his name by their oath and require the slayer to pay weregild as for a true man.

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch cites a story from the Talmud ( Shabbat 156b ) about Rav Nachman bar Yitzchok who might have become a thief had his mother not saved him from this fate by insisting that he cover his head, which instilled in him the fear of God.

The Khan was impressed and told Poinsett that the head of the guilty chief was his for the asking, yet since the thief had made it possible for him to accept such a distinguished visitor, perhaps a pardon might be in order.

He posts a similarly cryptic message in the Times demanding a meeting, signing it Pierrot, in the hopes that the thief — assuming it is not Cadogan West — might show up at Oberstein ’ s house.

The character of Arsène Lupin might also have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905, but Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d ' un neurasthénique ( 1901 ), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules ( 1902 ), whose main character is a gentleman thief.

Travis has his henchman throw the thief into a pit and has it filled with cement so as to display to Tyrone what happens to anyone who might double-cross him.

The absence of footprints, for instance, might indicate that the thief came by cab.

The blueprints might then be delivered from this party to another thief, who might then use them to break into a museum to steal a painting, which might then be delivered to yet another party.

Poirot investigates and finds out that the murder and the jewel theft might not be connected, as the famous jewel thief The Marquis is connected to the crime.

The term " thief in law " might be more closely translated as " thief who follows the law ," figuratively referring to a criminal who obeys the Thieves ' Code.

Helgi also stated that Hrói had broken the king's law by not guarding his goods, so that a thief might steal them.

Replies from proponents include noting that if the motive of the graverobbers was body parts for necromancy, the cloths might be irrelevant ; and if the culprit was a " pious thief ", then the wrappings might have been deliberately left behind to foster the notion of the body miraculously disappearing.

The Cimmerian is a talented fighter, but his travels have given him vast experience in other trades, especially as a thief ; he is also a talented commander, tactician and strategist, as well as a born leader.

Such a method in his investigation involved replacing the Pink Panther with a near perfect fake ; if The Tornado was the thief behind the thefts of the worlds most valuable artifacts, he would have been able to tell the Pink Panther was a fake.

A version of the scam is for the thief to claim to have contacts to facilitate legitimate business loans ; the victim here is not persuaded that he is doing anything illegal.

Of Angelico, Rothko stated " As an artist you have to be a thief and steal a place for yourself on the rich man ’ s wall.

Turpin may have followed his father's profession as a butcher early in life, but by the early 1730s he had joined a gang of deer thieves, and later became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and murderer.

John Turpin may have sent his son a letter, dated 29 March, urging him to " beg of God to pardon your many transgressions, which the thief upon the cross received pardon for at the last hour ".

If a thief were to steal a book from an unknowing victim, it may have been that the victim would have agreed, had the thief simply asked.

In different Christian traditions different names have been given to the thief:

The Dragon King had told Sun Wukong he could have the staff if he could lift it, but was angry when the monkey was actually able to pull it out and accused him of being a thief ; hence Sun Wukong was insulted, so he demanded a suit of armour and refused to leave until he received one.

The police chief publicly announces that Foussard was the jewel thief, but, as Robie points out to him in the presence of the abashed Hughson, this would have been impossible: Foussard had a prosthetic leg and could not possibly climb on rooftops.

Muste later recalled of his fellow Reformed Dutch Church members that they were " all Republicans and would no more have voted for a Democrat than turned horse thief.

It was only in 2004 that the Western Australian parliament repealed the quaint provisions of the former section 47 of the Police Act 1892 which allowed any person to arrest without a warrant " any reputed common prostitute, thief, loose, idle or disorderly person, who, within view of such person apprehending, shall offend against this Act, and shall forthwith deliver him to any constable or police officer of the place where he shall have been apprehended, to be taken and conveyed before a Justice, to be dealt with according to law …" A private citizen would have found it rather difficult to interpret the terms " loose " or " idle " with any degree of legal certainty.

* 1271-Mongol China: Marco Polo, his father, and uncle have fallen victim to a thief on the Silk Road.

* 1505-Renaissance Italy: Leonardo da Vinci informs the player and Renee that his notebooks have been stolen, and as a result of his failure to stop the thief, Mona Lisa is angered and refuses to smile.

Magic users and thieves have more statistics, in the form of spells and thief abilities, respectively.

This is supposed to have enraged Lalli so that he immediately grabbed his skis and went in pursuit of the thief, finally chasing Henry down on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi.

It has also been surmised that " bloody " is related to the Dutch bloote, " in the adverbial sense of entire, complete, pure, naked, that we have transformed into bloody, in the consequently absurd phrases of bloody good, bloody bad, bloody thief, bloody angry, & c, where it simply implies completely, entirely, purely, very, truly, and has no relation to either blood or murder, except by corruption of the word.

Conveniently, a thief was arrested before the trial, who claimed to have stolen Selman's gun immediately after the supposed gun fight.

Each version focuses on the main aspect of the super novice, acolyte, thief, merchant, mage, archer, gunslinger, taekwon, ninja, and swordman class based on the version of the game they have.

Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

In The Thief and the Dogs ( 1961 ) he depicted the fate of a Marxist thief, who has been released from prison and plans revenge.

Using reports that the abbot had been lining his own pockets rather than spending it on his monastery, Honorius publicly denounced Oderisio, calling him a soldier and a thief, not a monk.

Harding's great-great grandfather Amos claimed that a thief, who had been caught in the act by the family, started the rumor as an attempted extortion.

However, not until 25 years later it became known that the thief had been the notorious " Napoleon of Crime ", Adam Worth.

While no evidence had been found against " Thomas ", who only had a reputation as a minor thief, some of the identifiable bank notes had been traced back to him through friends who had been charged with receiving.

Belinda has recently been seen in a new telenovela called Camaleones, where she plays a prefect for a high class high school, and doubles as a thief with her love interest, who is also a teacher at the school where she works.

The victim of identity theft ( here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief ) can suffer adverse consequences if they are held accountable for the perpetrator's actions.

After Anne makes her gift suggestions and leaves, Poirot discovers that two pairs of the stockings are missing, confirming his suspicion that Anne is a thief, and seemingly giving weight to his suspicion that she stole from Mrs. Benson and killed her when she feared she had been discovered.

To his astonishment she tells him she actually saw him steal the diamond and has been protecting his reputation at the cost of her own even though she believes him to be a thief and a hypocrite.

Another war with the Xhosa, known as the War of the Axe or Amatola War, broke out in 1846, when a Khoikhoi escort who had been manacled to a Xhosa thief was murdered while transporting the man to Graham ’ s Town to be tried for stealing an axe.

Smith decided to finish Ferguson once and for all, so, she lured The Freak into a trap by falsely claiming that Ferguson's incriminating secret diaries had been hidden in isolation by another prisoner, white-collar thief Barbara Fields ( Susan Guerin ) ( in reality, Fields had hidden them in the governor's office .).

Although there are some rare cases where the property stolen is no longer in the possession of the thief, in these cases the thief is given one of the two more serious fines and is questioned as to where the property has been sent.

In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the English Angevin King Henry II, the law of the land required that: " anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid jury, to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water.