purloiner

Example Sentences

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But in spite of threats the bat was not brought back nor its purloiner or annexer betrayed.

From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles

But such "conveyings" are honourable to the purloiner.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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

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 Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"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