purloiner
Example Sentences
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She did not for a moment think of abandoning it, for it was her earnest desire to return it at once, unharmed, to its kind purloiner.
From The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill
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
But such "conveyings" are honourable to the purloiner.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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
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
