Verb (used with object) : to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.    From Dictionary.com. 

His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

Some of the captions are quite amusing:shamelessly 'filched' from Jason's COUNTERCOLUMN: The Adjunct of Ev.    From Wordnik.com.  ["cc all your emails to Jacqui Smith" Day] Reference

Finally they got a start, filched of all they had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

"I filched it from your table through the open window, Grame.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference

They would have a stun grenade filched from the DEA SWAT stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

You have sent our boy to the war -- with money filched by a felony!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

How often have priceless gems been filched from Oriental potentates!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

He must keep a hundred ballpoints in his desk, filched from everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Rain]

She blinked, fighting back tears at the chance death had filched from her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

Phornutus, squeezed out of him, and which Politian filched again from them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Another woman had filched him from her -- filched him forever from her, she knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference

She slid her feet into trainers, then filched the keys to the Porsche from a drawer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchased By The Billionaire]

The azoth he had filched from Hyacinth's boudoir was in the waistband of the trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

I perched myself like a sacred hawk at the mouth of the valley and filched thy likeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

It was Ruth's idea, filched from the transformation scene in her moving picture scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference

He had, moreover, the conviction that anything he put by would be filched by the radicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

Schleswig-Holstein was filched from Denmark (1866) by the same "extension of her greatness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

To frighten a fig-girl while unseen the ruffian filched from her fruit-trays the ripest away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

They lived here, I am convinced, and fed upon the food offerings they filched from the tombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

He handed me a piece of paper filched from General Gandin's own order-pad, and on it was written.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

In the witness-box Mr. Sala took up a curious position with regard to that filched and fatal joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

With equal address he filched the letter entrusted to Amleth from the coffer in which it was kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

With a disarming smile for the cook, she filched a couple from the serving platter on her way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

They succeeded in bribing an SS man to supply them a uniform, and Zimetbaum filched a pass from the guard room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference

Taffy, having filched his pint, was already on his way to the table, licking a moustache of foam from his upper lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

Born in the morning, he fabricated a lyre, and played on it by noon; and, before night, filched from Apollo his cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

Not Sicto, but Alverez had filched the order for the confinement of a leper, had erased the name, and substituted Piang's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

'Do not let your friends,' says Fronto, '(1)' envy each other, or think that what you give to another is filched from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Perfectly honestly, he preferred cigars, a habit he'd acquired from the days when he'd filched them from his father's cigar - case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Twister] Reference

Beth was the parson, of course, in a white sheet filched from the soiled-clothes bag, and changed for a black shawl for the sermon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference