Make off with belongings of others.
1 Email and networks have increased the chances for governments and companies to purloin data.
2 Somehow he'd managed to purloin a scalpel, we don't know exactly where or how.
3 The lady referred to took it upon herself to purloin the flower she wanted.
4 They need caretakers; respecterble women, that would sooner cut out their tongues than purloin .
5 She will usually attempt to purloin some trinket or other and be caught again.
6 Several persons may conspire to purloin each a limited amount.
7 He broke into outhouses with an axe he managed to purloin in a wood-cutters' camp.
8 She had tried to purloin a letter-whichdid not belong to Stuart in the first place.
9 To keep up the juggle-well , Iknowit must be so; but to purloin my name!
10 If you can't purloin a set of your husband's, two ordinary brushes will do.)
11 The laborers manage to purloin small quantities, which they sell to contraband dealers in the larger towns.
12 If it were haunted by Clithero, he must occasionally pass its limits and beg or purloin victuals.
13 He will perhaps charge you with having hired some one to purloin his pocket-book; let him think it.
14 All the whole time you live, you purloin from life and live at the expense of life itself.
15 How to purloin this cigar without having it missed by Mr. Pike was a worry for a moment.
16 Neither do I pilfer or purloin .
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