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Petty thievery flourished, and embezzlement, larceny, forgery and a hundred other crimes.
WATCHBIRDROBERT SHECKLEY
Men whose necessities have led them to embezzlement and larceny turn up so regularly that they hardly attract attention.
CRIME: ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENTCLARENCE DARROW
Embezzlement is fraudulently putting to one's own use what is intrusted to him by another.
THE GOVERNMENT CLASS BOOKANDREW W. YOUNG
Defalcation—The appropriating to one's own use, of money intrusted to him by another; embezzlement.
CYCLOPEDIA OF COMMERCE, ACCOUNTANCY, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, V. 4VARIOUS
That laws shall be passed making it felony, without benefit of clergy, to commit such fraud or embezzlement.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONVARIOUS
The letter says that my father was sentenced to the penitentiary, charged with embezzlement.
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKEHOLMAN DAY
And yet you have the impudence to tell me that I am guilty of embezzlement, with corruption.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 156, MARCH 12, 1919VARIOUS
Was George W. Stener worth any such sum up to the time he was removed from his office and indicted for embezzlement?
THE FINANCIERTHEODORE DREISER
Embezzlement is the appropriation, by a clerk or servant, to himself, of money or property put into his hands in trust.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIAVARIOUS
Already were seen the effects of the wealth that was pouring into Italy in the embezzlement of the public money by the Scipios.
HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, VOLUME I (OF 2)JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER

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