"Purloin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... held to account for acts which my heart abhors. Openly to oppose myself to Mr. P.—the course my soul dictates—were dangerous for us both, and another must be found. If he drink deep to-night, I will, heaven assisting, purloin the key, and release you at ten, or as soon after as may be. Jarvey, who is honest, and fears the turn things are taking, will have a carriage waiting in the road. Be ready, hide this, and when you are free, ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... better than animals; but a hairy brute like Pedro, with his great fangs and ferocious growls, was altogether beyond his conception of anything that could be looked upon as human. The strong impression made on him by Pedro was the prime inducement which had led Wang to purloin the revolver. Reflection on the general situation, and on the insecurity of Number One, came later, after he had obtained possession of the revolver and of the box of cartridges out of the ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... is exercised to prevent thefts, but it does not always succeed. The laborers manage to purloin small quantities, which they sell to contraband dealers in the larger towns. The government forbids private traffic in gold dust, and punishes offences with severity; but the profits are large and tempting. Every gold miner must send the ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox
... impressed upon them the advantage that would accrue if any of them could surreptitiously get possession of Captain Corbin's head-covering. Corbin, however, kept such good watch on his property that no one was able to purloin it. ...
— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards
... a pilgrim of the seas, When I, 'midst noise of camps and court's disease, Purloin'd some hours, to charm rude cares with verse, Which flame of faithful shepherd ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe
... wrench'd his teeth, and fill'd his eyes with blood; Blood also blowing through his open mouth 420 And nostrils, to the realms of death he pass'd. Thus slew these Grecian leaders, each, a foe. Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild; 425 They, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams, And rend incontinent the feeble prey, So swift the Danai the host assail'd Of Ilium; they, into tumultuous flight Together driven, all hope, all courage lost. ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... still Steve's intention to remove, steal, purloin, and kidnap William Bannister that night, but now that the moment had come for doing it he ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... climber, breeding and feeding chiefly on the ground, and having its retreat in holes and clefts of rock. It eats fruits, roots, sprouts of bamboo, acorns, &c.; also, it is said, eggs and young birds; also milk and ghee, which it is said to purloin occasionally from the villages. They feed morning and evening, and sleep much in the day. They are excellent climbers, but on the ground move rather awkwardly and slowly. Their senses all appear somewhat blunt, and they are easily captured. ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... be a little sordid, pilfering rogue, who would purloin from every body, and beg every body's bread and butter from him; while, as I have heard a reptile brag, he would in a winter-morning spit upon his thumbs, and spread his own with it, that he might keep it ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... savage hills of Biscay, of Galicia, and the Asturias, whose inhabitants were almost as poor as themselves, which possessed no superior breed of horses or mules from amongst which they might pick and purloin many a gallant beast, and having transformed by their dexterous scissors, impose him again upon his rightful master for a high price, - such provinces, where, moreover, provisions were hard to be obtained, even by pilfering hands, could scarcely be supposed to offer ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow |
