2020年10月25日 · “If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.” So no, Bilbo is not a skilled burglar, and he does not think of himself as suited for burglary in any way. If he has any predisposition for burglary, it's his nature as a ...

2018年10月31日 · Meanwhile in interludes, or maybe flashbacks, they are relating the events of her life, and how she became a cat burglar. I don't remember anything about any of the jobs. Other than sometimes the people who hire her, try to get her to take other forms of payment. Despite her insistence of only accepting gems as payment when they hire her to a job.

2020年6月20日 · The dwarves trust the competence of a professional burglar selected by Gandalf. The burglar will need to see the configuration of Smaug's cave, especially the side door, before deciding anything. Gandalf knows that Bilbo has reserves of courage and cleverness that he is not using, and will never use if he stays in his comfortable hole.

2021年3月9日 · Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing’s butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself. Detective stories with criminal butlers I could find no evidence for criminal butlers being a cliché in detective stories until after silent films had already run the trope into the ground.

2022年12月12日 · The visitations do happen over the course of three days as seen by that Scrooge goes to bed at past two in the morning, the first two visitations have Scrooge awakening shortly after midnight, and waiting to hear the clock strike one before the ghost appears.

2020年4月13日 · I remember reading a short story, many years ago, about a notorious safe-cracker in the old west, who managed to accrue a nice fortune by utilizing his skills.

2021年1月1日 · When I first saw this quote on p. 139 in National Geographic's photo book Sublime Nature: Photographs That Awe and Inspire, I interpreted "nature" to mean flora and fauna.

2020年5月2日 · The rattle is probably a police rattle: The origin of the rattle is not clear, but what has come to be known as the "Victorian Police Rattle" came into use sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century when night watchmen and/or village constables began using them to "raise the alarm".

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2019年5月18日 · On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels." But March learns that his father is not talking about a stash of loot.