No penance for the adulterer, stocks for the drunkard, whip for the petty larcener, brand for the felon, gallows for the murderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

The Vicomte passed at once from the popular admiration one bestows on a hero to the popular contempt with which one regards a petty larcener.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

Nevertheless, as an upright man will never wish barefacedly to steal from others, so does he determine at all times to claim independently his own: to be robbed, and not resent it (I speak foolishly), is the next mean thing after pilfering itself; and rash will be thy daring, O literary larcener!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

And it doesn’t do any good trying to pretend you’re dodging out to pinch a petty larcener when I know jolly well what you are up to, and, to be perfectly honest, am often dying to hear about it.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]