pilfering
Example Sentences
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The mountains, blue, dim, and mysterious, with range backing range, and pillaring the heavens, lift their mist-enveloped peaks far above this breathing, thinking world.
From Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches by Goff, George Paul
The pillaring waist—the strong-arched hips that did not divide into legs but into two great serpentine drivers—ended in the wide tail fins of a fish.
From The Dark Goddess by Shaver, Richard Sharpe
They were of pandanus wood, oblong in shape, with an effect of pillaring along the sides like straw work, lightly 337 fringed with hair or fibre and standing on four legs.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
