The queen hugged her magic crystal for a whole week, but could make nothing out of it: for her crystal showed her nothing of the king's son's hiding-place, nor of the fox at his nightly Thefts of butter and eggs from the royal dairy.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
Not a few wore on their cheeks the ghastly red fleur-de-lis, which he now knew for the mark of deserters, murderers, and the more flagrant criminals; others, he learned, were condemned for the pettiest Thefts, and a large proportion for having no better taste than to belong to the Protestant religion.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In spite of the vigilance of the guard, however, such Thefts occasionally took place, and the screams that from time to time rose in the side streets told of the work of plunder going on there.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty