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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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