purloiner
Example Sentences
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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 Lawson, Thomas William
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 Hill, Grace Livingston
"No," replied the presumed purloiner seriously, "I sot it on the top of the gate-post--the high one."
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn
One glance at her sweet, highbred features was sufficient to exonerate her as a purloiner of gentlemen's garments.
From Quick Action by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Was not the purloiner of my treasure and the wanderer the same person?
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
