purloiner
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He seemed unusually interested, as was indeed the case, for he strongly suspected that he knew who was the actual purloiner of the stolen twenty-dollar bill.
From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Horatio Alger
One glance at her sweet, highbred features was sufficient to exonerate her as a purloiner of gentlemen's garments.
From Quick Action by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But such "conveyings" are honourable to the purloiner.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
It was La of Opar, High Priestess of the Flaming God, and fifty of her horrid priests searching for the purloiner of the sacred sacrificial knife.
From Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
But in spite of threats the bat was not brought back nor its purloiner or annexer betrayed.
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Charles Pears
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