He accepts, too, Marx's theory of value, and declares it to be unanswerable; and he therefore finds no difficulty in saying that Christianity condemns a system which in his opinion grinds the faces of the labouring classes with incessant toil, filches from them the just reward of their work, and leaves them to hover hopelessly on the margin of destitution.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
His father, Roger Sterne, was one of those luckless persons who seem to be the especial sport of a malicious destiny, in whose hands nothing prospers, from whose hands thievish Fortune filches all opportunities.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
Austin filches a great many of my ideas!"
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith