purloiner
Example Sentences
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What can I say of Puck6—the thoroughbred—the simple-hearted—the purloiner of eggs warm from the hen—the flutterer of all manner of Volscians—the bandy-legged, dear, old, dilapidated buffer?
From Spare Hours by John Brown
Probably she makes a better purloiner of scarabs.
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The talk the original purloiner was giving his ungrateful assistant was one of the best expositions of virtue and honesty I've ever listened to.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
You owed this summary justice as well to the purloiner as to the public.
From True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
You are a corrupter of youth, and an evil man, Mr. Schoolmaster, and a purloiner of letters as well.'
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
