Go through their pouches and see if they carry anything worth our filching."

And you see this is only an ordinary, vulgar filching, because the boat was left empty a while.

There wasn't anything exceptional about this, it was a nightly event, the filching of a last grandmotherly kiss just before the light went out.

This weekend in New Jersey, about 80 miles apart, two fine examples of such benevolent filching are on display.

Granted, compared with the devastation of Sept. 11, the filching of a flag is hardly cosmic.

Armed private guards patrolled constantly while the city's own security personnel reviewed videotapes of coin sorting to detect any filching of quarters.

The squad's domain extends from major white-collar financial filching on Wall Street to modern versions of classic cons like the "Rock in a Box."

The movement's vastly influential signature method was appropriation: the filching or the imitation of existing images, to sabotage and/or revel in their rhetorical contrivance.

I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer-he kept not time.

The original boat is currently being restored at Filching Manor in East Sussex with the view to relaunch the boat when completed.

In the movie "Office Space," which has a similar setting, a worker whose many humiliations include the filching of his stapler gets his revenge by burning down the building.)

Williams kept records of the filching - a couple of dollars worth of oil here, a couple there - hardly the kind of petty cash that billionaires would seem to bother with.

In June 1990 a Health and Safety Executive inspector served a prohibition notice on Chapman Chalk Supplies Ltd at Filching Quarry, Jevington, Sussex.

It is less a playful improvisation upon Shakespeare's play like Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" than a simple filching of characters and plot for Mr. Updike's own ends.

The dwarf sported an armload of food as he ascended the makeshift stairway to the second level, each step on the stairs that he and Ivan had put back together helping him to justify his filching.

"And when it came to the actual filching of the loot from the temple," Fissif went on, gaining confidence from the sound of his own voice, "it turned out I had little need of their help."

Even though it is the filching and forgery of archival records, and not murder, that are at stake, the novel reads like an absurdist version of "Crime and Punishment" or "The Tell-Tale Heart."

If some citizens of cyberspace are blase about the likelihood of electronic intrusion, a growing number of others react to the filching of computer files with the feelings of outrage and violation normally provoked by a burglar's rifling their home.

In the company of the similarly shunned Oscar Wilde, the young man learns of the thin line between an Anglo-Saxon's smile and his bared teeth, as valuables go missing and Wilde himself does some filching of a literary kind.

But you should have asked first and filched only as a last resort.

He had walked into that town and filched a newspaper.

Including the one, very special object that he had gone to a lot of trouble to filch.

It was evident she had been filching wine, as well.

He filched them from my wardrobe when I kicked him out.

"Can you filch a sample for me and pop it into here?"

You may not filch from other people's translations without giving credit.

It might allow new boys to totally filch their markets.

Those who live in human cities often filch food and hunt rats.

It broke into units like that which had filched their flag.

The film is about a bank security officer who filches some bonds and gets caught up with a lot of bad people.

This song appealed especially, as we had filched it from the Germans.

"What keeps anyone from filching a fistful of those on their way out?"

Scotty's face wore a hurt look, as though some private information had been filched from him.

"You see what she's like," he said, around a couple of olives he'd filched.

Her eye fell on Jennifer's photo album, the one she'd filched from the apartment.

"No." She filched one anyway, and ate it on her way out.

Who'd ever think anybody would want to filch a gun there, let alone use it?"

He wouldn't have put it past her to filch the smock.

Slave buyers in cities might try to filch their daughters.

You, who for the past half hour have tried to filch a secret from me bit by bit!

Still, if there had been any to hand, I'd have filched some for you.'

If one was to filch a cloth napkin, that would be stealing.

The next one was a reprimand concerning filched office supplies.

The man who lived next door to the Millers filched the kid's identity.