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The museum's night watchman purloined the necklace from the museum display.purloined = stole
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Poe's story is titled, The Purloined Letter.purloined = stolen
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The cardboard had been cut from a Canadian Red Cross POW relief package; because the Red Cross didn't know of Ofuna's existence, the package had probably been brought from another camp by the Japanese, who routinely purloined the contents of such parcels for their own consumption. (source)purloined = stole
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Miss Tutti was sure those traveling fur sellers who came through town two days ago had purloined their furniture. (source)purloined = stolen
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purloined booze (source)
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A really first-class and legendary burglar would at this point have picked the trolls' pockets ... purloined the beer, and walked off without their noticing him. (source)
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I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. (source)purloined = stolen
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After that he would purloin his own garments from the family wash before she could get to them and replace the missing buttons.† (source)purloin = steal
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2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; 2:10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.† (source)purloining = stealing
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Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.† (source)purloiner = someone who steals
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She donned the slacks and oxford shirt that her father had purloined from the Italian gentleman.† (source)purloined = stole or stolen
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To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.† (source)purloin = steal
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I took therefore an opportunity of purloining his key from his breeches-pocket, while he was asleep, and thus made myself master of all his riches: after which I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed.† (source)purloining = stealing
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He hadn't found out about the purloined negative yet, however† (source)purloined = stole or stolen
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An alderman coming from a turtle feast will not step out of his carnage to steal a leg of mutton; but put him to starve, and see if he will not purloin a loaf.† (source)purloin = steal
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Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca had purloined the key and ventured inside; the myth of what the vault contained was bewitching-the original manuscript for the fourteen unpublished books of the Bible known as the Apocrypha, the third prophecy of Fatima, the first two having come true and the third so terrifying the church would never reveal it.† (source)purloined = stole or stolen
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