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the act of unlawfully taking something from someone without force- Death for Trifling Larcenies.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- He had quick hands when he wanted them, and a skill for larceny.J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- That we undertake to guard our people against inconveniences, larcenies and pillage.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Paquette, representing Madison, admitted to one petit larceny conviction "back somewhere."Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- By the way, what did sister Sue think of your larceny?Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- On remand for numerous larcenies: Mulch Diggums, the kleptomaniac dwarf.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Allen, Canty, and Ramseur also all had misdemeanor convictions, ranging from criminal mischief to petty larceny.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- My larcenous aims were modest.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- To add insult to injury, he had been fined two hundred dollars for larceny and trespass.Stephen King -- Carrie
- Sweeter for the larceny of time and flesh, sweeter for the betrayal.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- We call that burglary or robbery or grand larceny and they have to pay the price.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Murder, drug addiction, larceny, assault, and vandalism were commonplace.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- They nailed me to the cross-larceny, jailbreak, car theft.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- You see, I don't have larceny in my heart; I'm not a real crook.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- "Larceny," Metzger said, "maybe they'll need a lawyer."Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- But the Traction gang can't get away with grand larceny like it used to.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- She used to tell me, "I don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, petty-larceny brother of mine.Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
- The police had arrested him for petty larceny, a grocery store.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
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