The purloined letter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'. From Wordnik.com. [Dis-O Week] Reference
Trafficking in purloined materials for the sisterhood. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES] Reference
Overheard at the Bunch Family Salon, as WonderBaby raced in circles with a giant bottle purloined from the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre Props Corner. From Wordnik.com. [Dads Can Be Lactivists, Too! | Her Bad Mother] Reference
That case leads Sam into investigating stolen gold coins purloined on the San Anselmo. From Wordnik.com. [Spade & Archer-Joe Gores « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
However, "purloined" DRE machines have been demonstrated to be highly vulnerable to hacking, leaving no evidence of the tampering. From Wordnik.com. [Election Fraud: Where's the Outrage?] Reference
Mail on Sunday over 'purloined' photographs of her wedding to Guy Ritchie. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Sadly, O'Neill does not detail exactly what kind of aftershave was purloined, meaning public watchdogs have no scent to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Madonna has accepted damages from the Mail on Sunday over 'purloined' photographs of her wedding to Guy Ritchie. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
"purloined" pictures of her now defunct union to the Brit director in 2000. From Wordnik.com. [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference
In that case, the purloined scoop was partly accurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout] Reference
Both the purloined hats lay in the middle of the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Parisian cobbler in the purloined uniform of a rifleman. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
If Cranston had purloined this packet it was under orders -- Wade's, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
The Imperial Ottoman Museum is full of good things purloined from other art centres. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
So it's poetic justice of sorts that the travel industry's purloined icon is melting. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts] Reference
The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
As a victim of plagiarism, I am left wondering how many other works of mine have been purloined?. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’] Reference
We did our cooking over a Bunsen burner purloined from the Catholic Boys 'School - beans mostly. From Wordnik.com. [Gentility] Reference
My money, my letters, every thing that stood between me and beggary were in the purloined trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Fresh pieces of peel ejected from her stomach gave ample witness as to who had purloined the orange. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
After fraudsters buy the purloined numbers, they commonly use them to grab goodies as fast as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Theft Identity] Reference
It could be a federal crime for those who purloined the call -- and for the congressman who passed it on. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Newt] Reference
A crust that is your own is a feast, while a feast that is purloined from unwilling creditors is a famine. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
A crust that is your own is a feast, while a feast that is purloined from unwilling creditors if a famine. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference
It was to bring back our axe that one of his tribe had purloined unseen from the camp during the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
Edinburgh, May 31, 1608, on the charge of having purloined a pearl belonging to the queen and valued at £110. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
The purloined memo made the Blair House meeting and Aspin's dip into the tank at the Pentagon look like a double sham. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference
But Rachel was very indignant, and it was only as she remembered the purloined letter that she consented to be appeased. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
He sat down at his desk, and Jesse saw him pick up several checks exactly like the ones purloined from the bank by Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference
Perhaps it were better the wretch purloined it, than that the fair name of a noble institution be stained with its acceptance. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Then, by the aid of secretly purloined candle ends, he would read hour after hour, and often the dawn found him still at his books. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
From Jupiter he purloined his sceptre, and would have made as free with his thunder-bolt, had it not proved too hot for his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
A few nights after the skunk's little affair with the timber wolf he returned to the clearing from which he had purloined the fat duck. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
He and LS guzzled each one in a chigger-weed patch behind the school gym, slurping and thumbing a stack of purloined Penthouse Variations. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Great Behind] Reference
In addition, car trunks should be redesigned so they can hold less -- just in case the owner plans to load them up with purloined produce. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
These letters were strictly confidential, but they were purloined from the office in which they were deposited by some person favourable to. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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