"Purloin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oozed out, and he became as arrogant as ever, and stoutly claimed that he was their big cousin, though, he said, he was not particularly anxious to be acknowledged by such a pack of little dwarfish thieving creatures as they were, who would steal through the farmer's fence to purloin vegetables for a cousin whom they ...
— Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... swelling act Promise, keep the word of Proof, give me ocular Proofs of holy writ Prophet not without honor Prophets, pervert the Propriety, frights the isle from her Prove all things Proverb and a by-word Providence their guide Prow, youth at the Prunella, leather or Psalms, purloin the Punishment greater than I can bear Pure, all things pure to the Purpose, infirm of —, nighty, never is o'ertook Purse, who steals my, ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various
... Proof, give me ocular Proofs of holy writ Prophet not without honor Prophets, pervert the Propriety, frights the isle from her Prove all things Proverb and a by-word Providence their guide Prow, youth at the Prunella, leather or Psalms, purloin the Punishment greater than I can bear Pure, all things pure to the Purpose, infirm of —, nighty, never is o'ertook Purse, who steals my, ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various
... own account, assisted by two other Italians as evil-minded as himself, arranged the stones so as to permit one person at a time to creep into the wretched hole, where he stowed away such parts of the cargo of the Fire-fly as he could purloin from his too-confiding commander. He admitted Zillah to a knowledge of this cave, as a place in which she might shelter. He knew her to be a female of wealth and consequence; yet had no idea of her connection with the Master ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... the murderers, to right the stage, And undeceive the long-abused age, Which casts thy praise on them, to whom thy wit Gives not more gold than they give dross to it; Who not content, like felons, to purloin, Add treason to it, and debase the coin. But whither am I stray'd? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; 20 Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham
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