Athlete more likely to take second than third?

Usage examples of stealer.

In his hot youth he had been rather a devil of a fellow in between dances, a cooer of soft phrases and a stealer of never very stoutly withheld kisses.

Frank was a cosmic thug, evil, foul, an asshole, a prick, a jerk, a soiler of lives, a stealer of souls, one-hundred-fifty-proof evil.

Any dog dreadful enough to have outdone his fellow couch destroyers, ankle nippers, rug soilers, lawn excavators, garbage stealers, and leash lungers to the extent of requiring three local consultations and the Monks of New Skete?

Horse Stealer have been slaughtering one another over this or that, and not a step closer to ending it have we ever come.

A Horse Stealer could use a goatsfoot to span a crossbow, or even an arbalest, which would have demanded a windlass of any human arm.

I'd say that in Nagorny's imagination Sun Stealer represented somebody in his day-to-day experience, and I see two obvious possibilities.

She's thinking that Zannez' "hunch" may have been based on solid indicators—if these two turn out to be druggers, and stealers of guns to boot.

The better echelons of laundry stealers, the gofferers and clean-starchers, stole from high-class districts, often taking clothes off the lines.

Bad enough that he was a Horse Stealer, towering head and shoulders above the tallest of the Bloody Sword tribes and instantly identifiable as an outsider.

Neither the Horse Stealers nor the Bloody Swords were all that numerous compared to the populations of the human-dominated lands which bordered their own, but any army of hradani had an impact out of all proportion to its mere size.

They claim we try to seize their land, and that we are wife stealers who grab their women when they are washing clothes along the riverbanks and take them as our own.

He himself would be greeted with a hefty degree of suspicion by Bahzell's fellow Horse Stealers, some of whom would regard him as a turncoat and traitor, and if he actually found himself forced to take up arms against other Bloody Swords—.