filch
suomi-englanti sanakirjafilch englannista suomeksi
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filch englanniksi
To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
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(RQ:Nashe Strange Newes)
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1) / VVith cunning haſt thou filcht my daughters heart, / Turnd her obedience (vvhich is due to mee) / To ſtubborne harſhneſſe.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1)
(quote-book) Patrick Byrne,(nb...), and William Porter,(nb...)|date=6 September 1785|volume=V|page=501|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUsqAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA501|oclc=833944061|passage=He Wolfe therefore hoped, that every county in the kingdom would, (..) meet, and conſult, and expreſt their moſt ſtrenuous diſlike and abhorrence of this ſcheme of deceit, to filch from them their liberties and commerce.
(RQ:Browning Poems before Congress) / And filch the dogman's meat / To feed the offspring of God?
(RQ:London Little Lady)
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Something which has been filched or stolen.
(quote-journal)''|title=Queries: Profane Hymn Tunes|editor=Doran (writer)|John Doran|journal=and Queries|Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc.|series=5th series|location=London|publisher=Published at the office, 20, Wellington Street, London|Strand, W.C. by John Francis|date=6 May 1876|volume=V|issue=123|page=368, column 1|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Z1FAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA368|oclc=847235371|passage='New Sabbath' is partially a filch from Frideric Handel|George Frideric Handel's beautiful but voluptuous song in ''(Handel)|Hercules'', 'There the brisk sparkling nectar drains.'
(quote-book)|title=A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir (w)|location=London|publisher=Longman, Green, Longma, and Roberts|year=1860|page=173|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lhw6AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA173|oclc=727264|passage=By the appropriation clause, which is here referred to, it was proposed to apply a part of the property of the Irish Church to secular purposes, that is, to work a transfer of property, with an alteration of its uses. Call this as you will, a spoliation, or wise application, it implies a loss to one and a gain to other, of the same property. In the evil sense, it means spoliation, or wrongful deprival, appropriation, or "conveyance" in the sense of a filch.
(quote-book), (w); and G. and J. Robinson, (w)|year=1803|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=itdFAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PP6|oclc=4772793|passage=A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.