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Definition of Burgling
1. burgle [v] - See also: burgle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burgling
Literary usage of Burgling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"WHEN the window "prising" burglar's not a-burgling— not a-burgling, He doesn't
rush to some mere rural spot, And listen to the rivulet a-gurgling—'let ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1904)
"Why were you burgling ?' I asked him. He said he wasn't burgling, but was only
trying to do the lady a kindness." Sacharissa looked for an explanation. ..."
3. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"I remember a man being charged with suspicious loitering and with having burgling
implements in his possession. As each witness for the prosecution gave his ..."
4. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1899)
"Will, the Fletcher of Peckleton taken for burgling the house of Susan Gare of
... A man indicted before the Sheriff of burgling a house in Wanlip came to St ..."
5. The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1899)
"The taking ' one consideration with another, the policeman's lot is not a happy
one,' the coster 'jumping on his mother,' and the ' burgling' are perpetual ..."
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