Been stealing fruit, maybe, and wants to square himself before you catch him at it.

Scarcely a day passed, during the summer, but that some slave had to take the lash for stealing fruit.

Sometimes he would only survive by hitchhiking to Pasadena to steal fruit from orange orchards.

He deserved to be punished for stealing fruit, and instead he is being given a wonderful chance.

He was a good creature, a trifle given to stealing fruit and vegetables, but an amiable man enough.

I walked, avoided towns, stole enough fruit to keep the pangs at bay.

But she offers little help in feeding the single offspring and even steals fruit being passed to the chick.

So he was not tempted to steal fruit, like his grandfather.

She felt like a schoolgirl caught stealing fruit, or doing some other forbidden act.

No doubt the devils were already planning to steal fruit and seeds from the meadows of the Old Ones.