Verb (used with object) : to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants. From Dictionary.com.
The Master said, Did not Tsang Wen filch his post?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
In this instance, he would filch an illegal stopover. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
That do filch, black, and pinch maids of the dairies. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Will filch their beechnuts from the sleeping Pans. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
That doe filch, blacke, and pinch maydes of the dairyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
We give a robe to Charity one day and filch it the nex '. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Slave buyers in cities might try to filch their daughters. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
HOMER: ‘To filch their dinner from pirates on the beach.’. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Please tell me, how did you get the idea to filch it from him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights] Reference
The knave might filch his treasures; he was heedless of the knave. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
There were some eggs and a filch of bacon which they had brought from. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
An you pity me, tell me, how did you get the idea to filch it from him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
And they often engaged in price wars to try to filch market share from each other. From Wordnik.com. [Anheuser, InBev Reach] Reference
He never saw out-of-season fruit, and boy-like, had decided to filch himself a treat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
He knew what delicacies to filch and trade for entire meals of more mundane foodstuffs. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
Relying on expenses, however, has injected a sense of fiddle and filch into public life. From Wordnik.com. ['Disorder, Disorder!'] Reference
Progress is an honest man; the ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Sometimes, when they got back, if they could filch some wine or ale, they would get drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
I simply wanted to filch a moment from the future, and to test how I should go and behave. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
He has it hidden in some secret place, from which not even a Zamorian thief might filch it. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
After he was asleep, she could sometimes filch one of the blankets from under his slack grip. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
"The Complete Angler" would be a title they might filch with perfect honor and call their own. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Want to know if your rival is ramping up a new initiative, or looking to filch talent from you?. From Wordnik.com. [Six Ways To Spy On The Competition] Reference
These damned peasants, always trying to filch a man's land, land he's held for a thousand years. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
"We're up on the fifth floor, " he whispered, watching filch moving away from them, a corridor ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]
The General resolved, therefore, to filch it from its native king and annex it to the Crown of Castile. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Wear servant's livery I'll filch for you, snoutmask like you're sneezewort allergic, weapon under cloak. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Not that there was much to filch, mostly, but there had been things she'd thought she had that came up missing. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
One by one, the other boys went out to prowl the streets and see what they could filch, leaving Skif alone with Bazie. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
If he somehow managed to get hold of some information that proved dangerous, he could stop selling it, and filch more laundry. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
We've had the arrangement with other banks and none of them ever tried to filch more than we owed, or at least not this obviously. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME FINANCE: RABID WEASEL] Reference
"He's had plenty of opportunity to filch stationery or almost anything he wants, hanging around my offices, as he does -- an idler --". From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
It is painful to have to single out honesty as a special merit in a missionary work; but the temptation to filch away the good name of a. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
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