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larceny
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  • He was about thirty-five and looked remarkably calm, I thought, for someone who had just pulled off a life-threatening, high-voltage act of larceny.†  (source)
  • Once divorced, twice expelled from school, once fled from same, many times estranged from parents, thrice charged with petty larceny, once emergency-roomed for barbiturate overdose, once experimentally wrist-slashed, many times avomit on the pavement outside a bar—the shoplifting charges expunged from the record thanks to influential friends of dad.†  (source)
  • By the way, what did sister Sue think of your larceny?†  (source)
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  • For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.†  (source)
  • And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well.†  (source)
  • That we undertake to guard our people against inconveniences, larcenies and pillage.†  (source)
  • Larcenist!†  (source)
  • They nailed me to the cross-larceny, jailbreak, car theft.†  (source)
  • My larcenous aims were modest.†  (source)
  • On remand for numerous larcenies: Mulch Diggums, the kleptomaniac dwarf.†  (source)
  • Sweeter for the larceny of time and flesh, sweeter for the betrayal.†  (source)
  • I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.†  (source)
  • Death for Trifling Larcenies.†  (source)
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