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Meanings of purloin from in английском

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Usage of purloin from in английском
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All the whole time you live, you purloin from life and live at the expense of life itself.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 03
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Jimmy bought her a beer to celebrate, purloined from his favorite speakeasy nearby.
Zoya
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The Imperial Ottoman Museum is full of good things purloined from other art centres.
A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
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The Camellia Buds were fetching fuel, which they had purloined from the gardener's wood-shed.
The Jolliest School of All
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She rewards them with a kiss apiece, one of which Luttrell surreptitiously purloins from the prettiest.
Molly Bawn
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The letters, it later appeared, had been purloined from the Company's files by a faithless employee.
The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Par...
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The eyes were in proportion, and were covered with patches of red flannel, purloined from my mother's scrap-basket.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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For myself, I never turn a key anywhere, and no one ever purloins from me even a handkerchief.
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
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He accordingly pulled off the ragged shirt he wore and put on the article he had purloined from Paul.
Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
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After a short interval, another pair appeared, and constructed a habitation, chiefly with materials purloined from the other nests.
The Guardian
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I have a machine for doing this, a bean-slicer, purloined from my mother who came across it at an auction.
The Irish Times
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There are several fire rings formed from the perfectly round, perfectly white stones purloined from the border of the gravel path.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Making a hasty grab for the box of patches they had purloined from the monastery, he slapped one on his neck.
The dog said bow-wow
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At eleven-thirty he locked up his book and took to his room the mysterious bundle which he had purloined from the stables.
The Man on the Box
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She had one of Amelia's ugly little ginghams, purloined from a closet, for size, and she worked two or three dainty wonders.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
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I am strongly inclined to surmise that he would have preferred a pencil, purloined from the Treasury, to all the cedars of Lebanon.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843