All 3 Uses
larceny
in
Great Expectations
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- For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.†
p. 8.4
- I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.†
p. 9.2 *
- They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.†
p. 346.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(larceny) the act of unlawfully taking something from someone without force
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)