"Would you like me to take care of the little thief?"

It was "Nobody ever got shot for being a little thief."

Here he was, this little thief, but someone who could be kind and gentle.

"Don't tell me that little thief is still in town!"

There was no way they could turn her back to the harmless little thief she had once been.

My little thief plays a better prince than I ever could.

"It must have been something pretty awful, the way the little thief ran out of here."

I've sent him one small lot of ivory a year ago, so that he can't call me a little thief when I get back.

The little thief was growing a bit too high and mighty for my taste.

I don't think it's a good idea to turn that little thief loose in the streets.